On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 12:33 -0400, Scott Henson wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:43:53 +0100, Matt Wallace
<lists(a)truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:
> I've played around further and I now have the VMs connecting to the
> virbr0 interface, obtaining an IP Address, starting to download
> pxelinux.0 and then continuing to d/l the file for over an hour.
Does the cobbler server register the tftp connection? Does it say the
download completed or is it hung too? I'm curious if it gets the file
and then actually hangs while parsing it.
OK, I've left it running overnight, I'll update you on the progress in
the morning! :)
> I'm using KVM and libvirt-ruby. I'm starting to think
it may be quicker
> to d/l the files in the same way as koan and do things that way.
Not sure why koan does it this way, but it is more work than just
telling the host to PXE, so I assume there is a reason. I also think
koan is more using virt-install more than doing it itself.
So it would seem, I've spent most of the afternoon trying to get it
working with d/l'ing the vzlinuz and initrd.img file and then booting
only to be told that the kernel is "too old to support ramdisk images" -
something I find unlikely on Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)!
Thanks for your help,
Matt