On Wednesday 30 Jan 2013 21:24:43 Paul Angus wrote: > I met Michael Brown of gPXE/iPXE fame at the Cloud Expo Europe this week. > He was interested in the bare-metal deployment work that you guys are > doing. > > I am passing on to him details of the dev group to him, if you wish to > expedite this please contact me and I'll put you in direct contact, I > think he'd have some great ideas around network booting tin and bare-metal > deployments in general.
Thanks, Paul. For anyone who isn't familiar: iPXE is the open source (GPL) network boot firmware that's already included in several VMware, KVM, and Xen products. We can act as the PXE boot ROM for a VM, and we can also boot physical machines over various network protocols (TFTP, HTTP, HTTPS, iSCSI, AoE, FCoE, etc.). I'm interested to know what plans you have for supporting bare-metal deployment within CloudStack, and how iPXE might be able to fit in to these. Michael
