I've used the iPXE iso to boot successfully multiple times. Requires nothing on the hypervisor as far as I know, but I don't know how it works after you have an OS installed (I'm using it to bootstrap machines).
-- Erik On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Stephan Seitz < s.se...@secretresearchfacility.com> wrote: > 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 > > > >
