On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:15 AM, Gerd Hoffmann <kra...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Note that this patch only adds the fw_cfg file interface mechanism, it >> does not >> automatically probe for a special file when gPXE starts. You will >> need to manually >> "chain fw_cfg:genroms/file". > > That should be changed too IMHO. qemu needs some kind of new switch, so you > can place the firmware file into some other virtual directory where gpxe > could look by default, i.e. something like "fw_cfg:gpxe/default". Then you > can easily have qemu guests netboot from somewhere without any local > pxe/tftp setup, like this: > > qemu -fw-file gpxe/default=bko.gpxe > > with bko.gpxe being: > > #!gpxe > dhcp net0 > set 209:string pxelinux.cfg/default > set 210:string http://boot.kernel.org/bko/ > chain http://boot.kernel.org/bko/pxelinux.0
That sounds good. I will send out a new patch which fetches fw_cfg:gpxe/default on startup. Stefan
