On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Stephan Seitz < s.se...@secretresearchfacility.com> wrote:
> Erik, > > > 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). > > thank's for your reply! > > This is exactly what I was looking for. > > After digging a little further, I stumbled upon > https://github.com/mindjiver/packer-cloudstack > > Particularly the ipxe Image that guy built is very nice, since it > chain-loads via userdata. > > So what I finally did with a very similar ipxe.iso is: > > cat >recipe <<__EOF__ > #!ipxe > kernel http://10.10.1.254/vmlinuz root=/dev/nfs vga=normal > nsroot=10.10.1.254:/nfs-image-installer/install ip=dhcp rw -- > initrd http://10.10.1.254/initrd.img > boot > __EOF__ > > b64recipe=$(cat recipe | base64 -w0) > > cloudmonkey update virtualmachine id=$vmid userdata=$b64recipe > > > Well, the first steps are done. Now I have to figure out a convenient > way for my virtualrouter to give dhcp leases also to non-ACS machines / > make cloudstack aware of other machines... > > So far, thank's again! > > You're most welcome. Actually I'm using packer-cloudstack myself to build templates, and that's where I found iPXE as well :-) -- Erik
