Bug 443716

Summary: [RFE] Network PXE boot a paravirtualized guest
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Charlie Wyse <cwyse>
Component: python-virtinstAssignee: Daniel Berrangé <berrange>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Description Charlie Wyse 2008-04-22 23:28:20 UTC 
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Description of problem:
Currently you can not PXE boot a paravirtualized guest machine with neither virt-manager or virt-install.  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-virtinst-0.300.2-7.el5

How reproducible:
Always


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to use virt-install to PXE boot a guest.
2. Fail.


Actual Results:
[root@buffalo ~]# virt-install -n test -r 1024 -f /usr/pic1/Images/test -s 60 -m 00:16:3E:10:3F:64 --pxe
Network PXE boot is not support for paravirtualized guests

Expected Results:
To see a brand new guest PXE booting away.

Additional info:
Since the error says paravirtualized guests are not supported I'm guessing fully virtualized guests are.  It would be nice to see that same functionality with PV guests.
Comment 1 Daniel Berrangé 2008-04-22 23:34:21 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 242988 ***