Sorry, My mistake, PXE/ESXi 5 - OK gPXE/ESXi 5 - Not OK gPXE/ESXi 5/ESXi 5 - OK
It is an Intel card, Desktop Pro 1G. I will start looking at some variations and try them out. There may be some different gPXE builds I can do. Maybe there is some UNDI variation. Also an interesting comment from this blog http://blog.markusbordihn.de/2009/04/gpxe-and-localboot.html "Because pxelinux will unload from the memory before it load the chain.c32 it works without any problems and also the localboot has the full avalible memory" I am wondering if gPXE somehow operates within it's own memory restricted environment. Thanks John -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Cammarata Sent: 01 December 2011 13:10 To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: [PATCH] support for gPXE and esxi5 On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:47 AM, John Paget Bourke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > If I manually install ESXi on my hardware and then create an ESXi VM inside > (ESXi on ESXi), then try build from Cobbler with gPXE, it works !!! > > So gPXE/ESXi 5 - OK > So gPXE/ESXi 5 - Not OK > So gPXE/ESXi 5/ESXi 5 - OK > > So it must be some kind of hardware issue, some strange interaction between > gPXE and ESXi on that hardware ? > > Maybe I need to put this to the gPXE people ? Is it an Intel NIC? I vaguely remember seeing a post somewhere about Intel cards allocating a huge amount of buffers, causing issues when booting on a kvm guest, however I can't seem to find it now. Also, I'm not 100% clear on which situations are working for you and which ones aren't - #1 and #2 seem to be the same. _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
