PXE Booting?

[Joaquin Menchaca]

Say, if I wanted to do like, a pxeboot server, would my vagrant file look like this (assuming my server has dhcpd on it)?

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.define "server" do |server|
    server.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise64"  # Heisenbug
    server.vm.hostname = "pxeboot"
    server.vm.network :private_network, ip: "10.1.1.1"
  end

  config.vm.define "client" do |client|
    client.vm.gui = true
    client.vm.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--boot1", "net", "--boot2", "disk"]
    client.vm.network :private_network, type: "dhcp", auto_config: false
  end

end

[Simon McCartney]

Almost, I’ve had more reliable success if you ensure that the private network of the server & primary network of the client are forced on to the vbox network (assuming you are using Virtualbox.)

  # PXE Server 

  config.vm.define "jumpstart" do |jumpstart|

    jumpstart.vm.network :private_network, :ip => "10.241.19.11"

    # force the secondardy nic to the same vboxnet as the PXE node

    jumpstart.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |virtualbox|

      # put primary network interface into hostonly network segement

      virtualbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nic1", "hostonly"]

      virtualbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--hostonlyadapter2", "vboxnet7"]

    end

  # PXE client

  config.vm.define :"node01" do |vm_config|

    vm_config.vm.box      = "blank-amd64”

    # Use an empty box 

    vm_config.vm.box_url  = "https://s3.amazonaws.com/fnichol/vagrant-base-boxes/blank-amd64-20121109.box"

   

    # wait up to 10min before declaring the node dead (from Vagrant's POV)

    # the user can still just ctrl-c the `vagrant upi node01` and

    # vagrant will clean up

    vm_config.vm.boot_timeout = 600

    vm_config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |virtualbox|

      virtualbox.gui = true unless ENV['NO_GUI’]

      # generate a new mac address for each node, to make them unique

      virtualbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--macaddress1", "auto"]

      # put primary network interface into hostonly network segement

      virtualbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nic1", "hostonly"]

      virtualbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--hostonlyadapter1", "vboxnet7"]

      # pxe boot the node

      #virtualbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--boot1", "net"]

    end

  end

I’ve also noticed that the version of iPXE that ships with Virtualbox is quite old, and didn’t like some of the kernels I was working with, luckily it’s easy enough to use the ipxe.iso from ipxe.org to use newer versions of the iPXE code  (the alternative box below is needed because Fletcher’s box used above doesn’t have an IDE interface defined):

vm_config.vm.box      = "boot-from-iso"

vm_config.vm.box_url  = "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/7196/boot-from-iso.box”

    vm_config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |virtualbox|

      virtualbox.gui = true unless ENV['NO_GUI']

      # VirtualBox ship old iPXE code, so boot off an up to date

      # iPXE ISO instead

      virtualbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--boot1", "dvd"]

      virtualbox.customize ["storageattach", :id, "--storagectl",

                            "IDE", "--port",  "0", "--device", "0", "--type", "dvddrive",

                            "--medium", "ipxe.iso"]

Hope that helps - if not ping me, I’m working on 2 different PXE projects in Vagrant at the moment.

-- 
Simon McCartney

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[Simon McCartney]

There is a mistake in the PXE Server definition, remove the following line:

 virtualbox.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--nic1", "hostonly"]

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