Hi all (and greetings especially to those who remember me from the
Etherboot days),
we're working on updating the PXE support in VirtualBox to iPXE, and had
to realize that the KEEP_IT_REAL support is broken. Does anyone know how
far away it is from working state? Didn't find any information in the
ipxe mailing list except
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.ipxe.devel/66 - funnily again
talking about VirtualBox.
It's the only relevant mode of operation which conforms to the PXE spec
(so I was rather surprised that it's not working). It's vital for many
DOS/Windows based or completely custom professional deployment solutions
which expect the PXE stack, especially UNDI, to work from real mode, V86
mode or 16bit protected mode.
So if iPXE wants to replace both Etherboot (which is also broken in this
respect) and Intel PXE in VirtualBox this apparently otherwise unused
feature will have to be resurrected. We're aware that this means kicking
out any feature which isn't vital, and that's not a concern since in the
worst case the people who need a more feature rich iPXE build can
replace the ROM image, or use the simple one to bootstrap a build over
the network which has everything enabled.
Thanks for any hints,
Klaus
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