Dear DRBD and WinDRBD community, There is a new release of WinDRBD: 0.10.2. It is mainly targeted to those experimenting with the boot feature as it contains a new ipxe binary which passes the DHCP address to the Windows system. Windows will configure the boot NIC at boot time based on the info it gets via iPXE (which in turn gets it from DHCP) so it is not necessary any more to configure a static address to the boot NIC.
Furthermore, all drivers that are boot critical when network booting are now loaded at boot time. Therefore the patching of the registry for the drivers is also not necessary any more. iPXE patches are now maintained in a separate branch in a separate repo hosted on github for the time being (until we get the patches submitted and accepted upstream). The github URL is: https://github.com/johannesthoma/ipxe-windrbd.git and the branch containing the windrbd patches is called windrbd. We also fixed an WinDRBD bug for longer resource names (the thread could not be created if resource name contains more than 20 or so characters). A new version of the windrbd-boot PDF is released and can be downloaded from https://downloads.linbit.com/ If you have a working remote boot installation please update you WinDRBD enabled iPXE binary (or build a new one). The binary can be found in the WinDRBD program folder. As always a signed driver and packaged utilities can be downloaded from the Linbit homepage at: https://www.linbit.com/en/drbd-community/drbd-download If you just want to test WinDRBD (and not develop for it) using Linbit's signed EXE is the recommended way to obtain it (rather than build it from the sources). As always, any feedback is highly appreciated, Best wishes, - Johannes _______________________________________________ Star us on GITHUB: https://github.com/LINBIT drbd-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user
