On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:18 AM, Thomas Bächler <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 29.11.2011 11:16, schrieb Thomas Bächler: >> I inserted an IP address instead of a name for the moment, you can try >> netbooting by running >> qemu -m 1G -kernel gpxe.lkrn [1] >> Download takes a while, but the image boots up fine. >> >> [1] https://releng.archlinux.org/pxeboot/gpxe_text.lkrn > > For testing better use this: > qemu -net nic,model=virtio -net user -m 1G -kernel gpxe.lkrn > Without the virtio interface, download rates are tiny. With virtio, I > just downloaded the images with almost 3MB/s.
wow ... very cool. i like how the boot image is only 304K -- after selecting the real image, i was looking at a prompt about 30sec later ... neat :-) i didn't have 1G of ram to use at that moment, so i tried 512M instead, seemed to work ok ... whats the minimum? might be a bit bandwidth intensive tho -- would be cool to see flurry/torrent-like method (eg, libtorrent) of gathering the images ... might be a bit "out there", but i would seed the images ;-), and i have a pretty nice connection. -- C Anthony
