Hi, I am not using PXE, but can confirm that at least on KVM PXE is first method tried - very handy. Not sure how it is in XenServer, but I would imagine it's the same, for consistency's sake.
Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephan Seitz" <s.se...@secretresearchfacility.com> > To: users@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Monday, 26 January, 2015 11:52:35 > Subject: booting instances via pxe/tftp > Hi all, > > I'm trying to boot instances via pxe. During my experiments that worked > a few times, but I've tried a lot and didn't document my single steps as > needed :/ Never got to a "stable" point. > > By now, I'm quite unsure if a particular vm tries to boot pxe with the > default boot-order (HVM d,c) > > For some VM's i've changed that to > > xe vm-param-clear uuid=$VMUUID param-name=HVM-boot-params > xe vm-param-set uuid=$VMUUID HVM-boot-params: order="n" > > the BIOS output didn't change. For other Boot-Options it says, one has > to press F12 (which is quite impossible due to the fact it's far to fast > skipped. Not to mention usual browsers have there own interpretation of > the "F"-Keys...). > > Maybe the timeout can also be set, but I didn't find any option for > that, neither in ACS nor in XenServer. > > - Stephan
