Re: [ipxe-devel] https booting

2020-08-03 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > > After looking at https://ipxe.org/cfg/crosscert I'm not convinced this > > is a good idea though. This would likely put quite some load to > > ca.ipxe.org. Also that machine becomes a single point of failure for > > worldwide ipxe https boot, and looking through the mailing list I've >

Re: [ipxe-devel] https booting

2020-08-03 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 05:19:38PM +0100, Michael Brown wrote: > On 22/07/2020 15:13, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > We could easily define etc/ipxe/https/{ciphers,cacerts} paths in a > > different format if better suited for iPXE. Libvirt can set the right > > path depending on whether its booting

Re: [ipxe-devel] https booting

2020-07-24 Thread Michael Brown
On 22/07/2020 15:13, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: We could easily define etc/ipxe/https/{ciphers,cacerts} paths in a different format if better suited for iPXE. Libvirt can set the right path depending on whether its booting a VM with EDK2 vs legacy BIOS The most useful for iPXE would probably be

Re: [ipxe-devel] https booting

2020-07-22 Thread Michael Brown
On 22/07/2020 14:21, Michael Brown wrote: After looking at https://ipxe.org/cfg/crosscert I'm not convinced this is a good idea though.  This would likely put quite some load to ca.ipxe.org.  Also that machine becomes a single point of failure for worldwide ipxe https boot, and looking through th

Re: [ipxe-devel] https booting

2020-07-22 Thread Michael Brown
On 22/07/2020 13:08, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: With the world moving to use https by default people start to ask for https being enabled by default for the qemu boot roms. We could simply flip the DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTPS switch in src/config/qemu/general.h (ipxe git repo). Note that this would only aff