On Sun, 27 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> How did you get the PXE working?
I already had a PXE server for physical hosts, so I just did a
virt-install with the --pxe switch, and it worked first time. The MAC
address was pre-defined and known to the DHCP server. I installed both
Linux and Windows guests with PXE.
> And do you have widgets for setting up the necessary bridged
> networking?
I edited the ifcfg-eth0 file on the host and added an ifcfg-br0, all by
hand, and then rebooted. I didn't have to think about it again.
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0:
DEVICE=eth0
HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ONBOOT=yes
BRIDGE=br0
NM_CONTROLLED=0
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0:
DEVICE=br0
TYPE=Bridge
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=<braddr>
IPADDR=<ipaddr>
NETMASK=<netmask>
NETWORK=<network>
ONBOOT=yes
For each guest, something like this was used:
<interface type='bridge'>
<mac address='52:54:00:1d:58:cf'/>
<source bridge='br0'/>
<model type='virtio'/>
</interface>
Steve