On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 05:58:14PM -0800, Chris wrote: > From a Windows server 2003 domU running a DHCP server, I used the > Windows network monitor to capture incoming frames. When the > default Realtek 8139 driver is used, the capture shows the DHCP > requests and offers. A bare-metal client will PXE boot in this > scenario, but another domU on the same physical system doesn't seem > to get the DHCP offer.
This should work, though it's not something that I've tested. At the risk of asking for the moon, have you used a non-DHCP server in a domU at any time? > When I use the PV NIC driver on the Windows DHCP server, the network > monitor doesn't list any network devices. I don't haven't tried > using anything else to capture frames from the Windows domU, so I > can't say for sure that the server isn't getting the DHCP requests, > but after swapping the server's NIC driver out for the PV version, > even bare-metal clients fail to PXE boot. This sounds like an issue specific to the Windows PV drivers. I'll talk to the maintainers. _______________________________________________ xen-discuss mailing list [email protected]
