Hi,
I've been setting up Foreman to create KVM VMs and provision Debian 6 to
them. It's all working very well with the exception that the localboot
called from the default pxelinux.cfg/default doesn't boot from the virtio
disk. It seems to be hitting this bug
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472236. Has anyone managed to
successfully work around this problem, or does it just work on RHEL 6 & kin
and Ubuntu? It there a possibility foreman could work around it by
switching the boot device after provisioning then back before reprovision,
for example?
Thanks,
Matt
> Hi,
>
> I've been setting up Foreman to create KVM VMs and provision Debian 6
> to them. It's all working very well with the exception that the
> localboot called from the default pxelinux.cfg/default doesn't boot
> from the virtio disk. It seems to be hitting this bug
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=472236. Has anyone managed
> to successfully work around this problem, or does it just work on RHEL
> 6 & kin and Ubuntu? It there a possibility foreman could work around
> it by switching the boot device after provisioning then back before
> reprovision, for example?
>
afaik, this bug has been long gone, it works without any issues on my
KVM installation.
You could try two things, one is to use a newer version of pxelinux.0,
and the other is to update the gpxe bios (usually packaged under kvm-pxe
or something like that).
When I've tried Ubuntu (around 10.04 or so) it worked with no issues afair.
Ohad
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On 01/30/2012 12:44 AM, Matthew Willsher wrote:
> Thanks,
> Matt
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fixed this by, as you say, replacing the virtio pxe ROM that ships with
KVM with another. In this case, I used the ROM from the ipxe package that
ships with Debian 6. It works as expect now.
Matt
