It is normal - I don't see any that contradicts the way dhcp works. If you want your current setup to work all the time, you need to have all your dhcp servers to provide the same tftpboot server name and the boot filename. Well, obviously, your pxe boot server needs to boot from local disk.
Sent from my iPhone On May 15, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Matthieu Volat <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm currently using virtualbox to simulate a network where a virtual > appliance delivers PXE images to other (diskless) virtual machine > instances. > > I noticed that the client VMs failed to boot because they accepted the > addresses from the VirtualBox dhcp server, which is *not* configured to > provide any image. > > I also tested disabling the built-in dhcp server and putting another > dhcp server as a VM, and once again, the clients that were > supposed to use the PXE server failed. When there is no dhcp other than > my PXE delivering VM, everything works fine. > > This happened on a host-only network, using VirtualBox 4.1.14. > > I wonder if that kind of behaviour is normal? > > Thanks for any advice/comment about this, > > Matthieu > > -- > Matthieu Volat <[email protected]> > INRIA, MESCAL research project team > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > VBox-users-community mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
