On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Claudio Jeker wrote: > I want to be able to build vmd images more or less automatically. > This is why I added 'vmctl wait' and this here is the next step. > It allows to boot bsd.rd and pass the needed info to the kernel that the > system thinks it was PXE booted and so the installer will start an > auto_install automatically. > > In short you can do now: > vmctl create disk.img -s 10G > vmctl start "installer" -Lc -B net -b ./bsd.rd -d disk.img > > This will boot the installer which will then fetch install.conf from your > host. For this to work I adjusted the DHCP code to pass a bootfile of > auto_install in the lease (currently hardcoded). After that it is just a > regular network autoinstall > > I decided to add a -B flag which could be extended to include things like > net, disk, cdrom and is therefor similar to qemu -boot option. Ideally vmd > would pass this flag also to SeaBIOS (I left this out for somebody else to > tackle). Especially once SeaBIOS support PXE booting it would be nice to > use this flag to flip the boot mode of the BIOS. > > -- > :wq Claudio
I like this because it's lighter weight than the patch I had come up with from g2k18. At the pace you're going, are you sure you don't want to tackle boot order with SeaBIOS? ;-) Ok ccardenas@ +--+ Carlos
