Sweet, thanks Brian and Jorge. I'll set it to tftp an ipxe image since that's what I'm developing against for the bare metal stuff.
-r > On Jun 12, 2018, at 12:47 AM, Brian Bennett <brian.benn...@joyent.com> wrote: > > You can set nic.*.ip=dhcp for both joyent brand and kvm brand zones. > For KVM zones you can set "boot": "order=n" for network boot. You'll need a > properly configured tftp server. This should work with any image. Another > possibility is creating an ipxe image (i.e., an image that has ipxe in the > boot sector) that will boot ipxe even when the local disk is specified as the > boot device. > > -- > Brian Bennett > Systems Engineer, Cloud Operations > Joyent, Inc. | www.joyent.com > >> On Jun 11, 2018, at 1:19 PM, Rob Seastrom <rs-li...@seastrom.com> wrote: >> >> >> In a recent thread, Brian mentioned the "mini DHCP server" in the KVM brand >> zone. >> >> I had a couple of questions about that that have been rattling around in the >> back of my head for a while... >> >> First off, is there a way to turn this off and allow the guest in the KVM >> zone to DHCP from another server elsewhere on the vlan? Some combination of >> nics.*.allow_dhcp_spoofing and configuring the NIC with no IP address? I >> don't see any nics.*.dhcp_client in the vmadm man page... >> >> Second, assuming the above is feasible, does the SeaBIOS (which I think is >> what we're running in qemu) know enough to PXEboot? I want to netboot >> http://ipxe.org and chain on to doing other things. >> >> Goal here is development environment for custom ipxe builds and preseeds for >> bare metal imaging. >> >> Anyone done anything like this before? I've been using vmware as a dev >> environment and it is wearing thin because of what a pain it is to do my >> repeated pave-and-rebuild cycles. >> >> Thanks, >> >> -r >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.listbox.com > > ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
