Just FYI, the proprietary expansion pack is not needed if you want to do
PXE boot with the virtual fast Ethernet card in VirtualBox.
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks very much! I just got this working today.
>
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Lachele Foley (Lists)
> <lf.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Re the dhcp... I have each machine individually entered because I'm
> > likely to have to serve different images to different ones. The file
> > format is given below, if it helps. I'm no expert, tho. I don't know
> > how well you can mix "general" and "specific." I think you can set
> > the "deny" line down in the "pool" so the image in question can only
> > go to the mac you want.
> >
> > not authoritative;
> > deny unknown-clients;
> >
> > subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
> > pool {
> > range 192.168.1.101 192.168.1.110;
> > filename "/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.0";
> > option root-path "/opt/ltsp/i386";
> > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0
> > host client_1000 { # old gateway, gigE NIC
> > fixed-address 192.168.1.102;
> > hardware ethernet **:**:**:**:**:**; } ## MAC address of card
> > }
> > pool {
> > range 192.168.1.111 192.168.1.120;
> > filename "/ltsp/amd64/pxelinux.0";
> > option root-path "/opt/ltsp/amd64";
> > option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> > host virtual_client {
> > fixed-address 192.168.1.111;
> > hardware ethernet **:**:**:**:**:**; }
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Lachele Foley (Lists)
> > <lf.l...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I did it just now with a virtualbox machine as a thin client. Was
> >> pretty easy. I image a fat client is about the same.
> >>
> >> * You need the VirtualBox extensions installed.
> >>
> >> * While making or starting your new machine, just let it do the
> >> minimal whatever about hard drives. They don't matter because you
> >> won't use them.
> >>
> >> * In Settings:
> >>
> >> ** System - Motherboard - Boot Order: Click "Network" and use the
> >> arrows to move it above the hard drive.
> >>
> >> ** Network - I used the Intel Pro 1000 MT (others might work, this one
> >> did for me), and to most easily access the LAN outside the VBox
> >> special network, I had to make it a bridged adapter.
> >>
> >> ** While you're in Network, copy the MAC addy for the card over to
> >> your /etc/ltsp/dhcpd.conf file (are you using per MAC address? that's
> >> what I do... can help more on that if you need).
> >>
> >> * Re-start your server's dhcp server and go. That's all I had to do.
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Todd O'Bryan <toddobr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Is anyone aware of instructions anywhere about how to set up
> >>> VirtualBox (or something else) to fake a fat or thin client so that
> >>> you can test the image?
> >>>
> >>> In particular, I want to make sure that the dhcp server I install only
> >>> serves requests to that virtual client so that I don't mess up the
> >>> rest of the network while I'm trying to work out the kinks. I'm also
> >>> not exactly sure how to get a virtual client to PXE boot, so
> >>> instructions addressing that would also be useful.
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>> Todd
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
> >> --
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> >
> >
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