Mike, I 'd like to understand what it takes to do this. Do we need a special initramfs for oVirt node to help with the stateless pxeboot? Some tools like Dracut and Dracut-network to create such an initramfs?
David >-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Burns [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:35 AM >To: Li, David >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Users] Pxeboot > >On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 10:24 -0800, Li, David wrote: >> Hi Mike, >> >> I read the oVirt node Wiki and had an impression it's not ready in 2.3 yet: >http://ovirt.org/wiki/Node_Stateless . >> >> Ok, I saw that tool in the ISO. Let me dig in to how to use it. >> The real question now is if I can nfs mount the the real rootfs which would >also be on the TFTP/DHCP server in the final pxe booting stage. Is that >something you are doing too? > >Ok, I think I see where the confusion is now. We support using pxeboot to >install to a local disk, but not full stateless booting and pulling the >configuration >from elsewhere. > >It won't really be feasible to so something like this until we have stateless >support worked out, but you're welcome to work with us to get it working. > >Mike > >> >> David >> >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: Mike Burns [mailto:[email protected]] >> >Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 10:11 AM >> >To: Li, David >> >Cc: [email protected] >> >Subject: Re: [Users] Pxeboot >> > >> >On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 09:53 -0800, Li, David wrote: >> >> Since oVirt node doesn’t support pxeboot in the current release, >> >> does anyone know if I can use RHEV-H to pxeboot and nfs mout the >rootfs? >> > >> >Where does it say that ovirt-node doesn't support pxe boot? I use >> >PXE in my testing. I haven't heard of any issues with PXE either. >> > >> >The livecd-iso-to-pxeboot script in livecd-tools will create the >> >initrd and vmlinuz files for you to import into your PXE server. >> > >> >Mike >> >> >> >> David >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Users mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
