On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 05:58:14PM -0800, Chris wrote:
> From a Windows server 2003 domU running a DHCP server, I used the
> Windows network monitor to capture incoming frames.  When the
> default Realtek 8139 driver is used, the capture shows the DHCP
> requests and offers.  A bare-metal client will PXE boot in this
> scenario, but another domU on the same physical system doesn't seem
> to get the DHCP offer.

This should work, though it's not something that I've tested. At the
risk of asking for the moon, have you used a non-DHCP server in a domU
at any time?

> When I use the PV NIC driver on the Windows DHCP server, the network
> monitor doesn't list any network devices.  I don't haven't tried
> using anything else to capture frames from the Windows domU, so I
> can't say for sure that the server isn't getting the DHCP requests,
> but after swapping the server's NIC driver out for the PV version,
> even bare-metal clients fail to PXE boot.

This sounds like an issue specific to the Windows PV drivers. I'll
talk to the maintainers.
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