Doing PXE with libvirt / virt-manager

pxe_01 by Elijah
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\ \ Installing hosts using PXE is a well known thing.\ Why not do it within libvirt? Or: How do I do this in libvirt?\ Do I need to setup my own dhcp server to pass the bootp option? Nope.\ Just use libvirts default dnsmasq and add the bootp dhcp option.\ \ All you need to do is editing the default network configuration using virsh (no way o do it from virt-manager).\ \

# virsh net-destroy default
# virsh net-edit
  Now add "<bootp file='/pxelinux.0' server='$PXESERVERIP' />" under /network/ip/dhcp
# virsh net-start default

\ All done.\ Just have a look at the definition here to read about more features.

::: {#footer} [ June 14th, 2012 3:27pm ]{#timestamp} [ovirt]{.tag} [fedora]{.tag} [pxe]{.tag} [libvirt]{.tag} :::