On Nov 25, 2014 9:56 AM, "santosh" <santosh.iitg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Query regarding Booting Linux VM (Virtual Machine) from a network server
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I am interested to boot my VM with PXE BOOT through command line (not
through GUI)
After doing google I found many docs on this topic but all explains
about server side configuration I hardly find any doc which explains
client side configuration that needs to be done for VM .
What configurations / steps should I follow on the client side so
that my VM will be enabled for NET boot ?
Please remember I am interested to do everything on command line. No GUI.
e:g
I would like to boot my VM with Centos / Fedora linux. Suppose
server side configuration is done. Now what should I do on client
side (through command line, no GUI), so that VM will come up with NET
boot shell prompt ? after that it will download CENTOS / Fedora image
from server.
Thanks
Santosh
Provisioning virtual devices and boot orders and such are host operations,
ie 'server side'. Just like a physical computer, any guest operations or
'client side' things are done after the guest has booted something. So the
things you need to do are configuring the DHCP/telnet/http server for PXE
deployments, then provisioning a guest configured to boot via PXE.
You can refer to the Fedora Installation Guide for instructions on setting
up the server. For deploying the guest, I recommend `virt-install` . For
'client configuration', well, after Fedora is installed on the guest you
can treat it like any other Fedora system.
--Pete