=Comment: #0================================================= Emily J. Ratliff <ratliff.com> - 1. Feature Overview: Feature Id: [202015] a. Name of Feature: Switch qemu to use gpxe option rom for netboot b. Feature Description Switch qemu over to using gpxe option rom for network booting 2. Feature Details: Sponsor: LTC Architectures: x86 x86_64 Arch Specificity: Both Affects Kernel Modules: Yes Delivery Mechanism: Backport Category: Xen Request Type: Driver - Feature from Upstream d. Upstream Acceptance: In Progress Sponsor Priority 2 f. Severity: Medium IBM Confidential: no Code Contribution: IBM code g. Component Version Target: gPXE 0.97 or newer, gemu-0.12 or newer 3. Business Case IBM has a number of products that require a richer netweork booting environment. Tivoli Provision manager has a program that makes extensive use of PXE UNDI mode which has much better support in gPXE than the current etherboot module. Additionally, gPXE also includes iSCSI booting support which is a key diskless technology that IBM employs in bare-metal scenarios. Adding gPXE allows virtualization to fit more seamlessly into existing customer environments. 4. Primary contact at Red Hat: John Jarvis jjarvis 5. Primary contacts at Partner: Project Management Contact: Stephanie Glass, sglass.com, 512-838-9284 Technical contact(s): Ryan Arnold, ryanarn.com IBM Manager: Warren Grunbok II, grunbok.com
Moving to gPXE was also requested on bug #488879, but for RHEL-6.
------- Comment From ryanh.com 2009-09-18 13:34 EDT------- F11 has gPXE packaged: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=492181 F12 is planning the switch. http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtgPXE Work is already done upstream, just need to pull in for 5.5
IBM is signed up to test and provide feedback.
This enhancement request was evaluated by the full Red Hat Enterprise Linux team for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor release. As a result of this evaluation, Red Hat has tentatively approved inclusion of this feature in the next Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update minor release. While it is a goal to include this enhancement in the next minor release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the enhancement is not yet committed for inclusion in the next minor release pending the next phase of actual code integration and successful Red Hat and partner testing.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 546019 ***