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Re: [Xen-devel] PXE boot

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Ruediger Berlich wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> just playing with Xen, wondering whether it could be used
> to host a virtual Grid (or rather: an LCFGng server +
> a user-interface, worker node, computing element and storage
> element, each in its own virtual host).
>
> The problem here is that usually the UI, WN, etc. boot from
> the LCFGng server via PXE. I cannot find that Xen does support
> this boot method, although this could be a typical case of
> RTFM, where there is no sufficient response from Google :-)

compile grub with pxe support, load xen with grub.  That's how we boot our xen
machines diskless.

xen loads from network.
the linux client images load from network.
the linux instances nfsroot.


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