pxe disable for system vms

[Marcus Sorensen <sh...@gmail.com>]

All,
  I was troubleshooting why my systemvm.iso seemed to be unbootable, and in
the process realized that the routers in particular (due to multiple NICs)
spend 15-20 seconds just loading boot roms for pxe.

I've put together a patch that avoids loading the pxe rom in the libvirt
interface definitions. My question is whether it's sufficient to have this
in the live NicTO or if I need to modify the nics table/NicVO/NicProfile
and add a column for pxe.  Should it be a saved property?

RE: pxe disable for system vms

[Anthony Xu <Xu...@citrix.com>]

The name is confusing, but systemvm.iso is not bootable, it includes several packages and files which will be installed /copied to system VM.


Anthony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marcus Sorensen [mailto:shadowsor@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 11:59 AM
> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: pxe disable for system vms
> 
> All,
>   I was troubleshooting why my systemvm.iso seemed to be unbootable,
> and in
> the process realized that the routers in particular (due to multiple
> NICs)
> spend 15-20 seconds just loading boot roms for pxe.
> 
> I've put together a patch that avoids loading the pxe rom in the
> libvirt
> interface definitions. My question is whether it's sufficient to have
> this
> in the live NicTO or if I need to modify the nics
> table/NicVO/NicProfile
> and add a column for pxe.  Should it be a saved property?