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Get PxeLinux and PXE-Knife working with QEMU over HTTP

Note : use latest version of Pxelinux to work over HTTP, for me version 3.80 worked.

Following is the way to run Pxe-knife (or any pxelinux based system) over http. 

 
qemu -fda gpxe.dsk -net nic -net user -bootp http://10.0.0.2/pxeknife/pxelinux.0

or you can boot the online version of PXE-Knife using following command. 

 
qemu -fda gpxe.dsk -net nic -net user -bootp http://alien.doesntexist.org/pxeknife/pxelinux.0

With gpxe embedded script

I recompiled the gpxe with following embedded script ../contrib/scripts/forpxeknife.gpxe, 

#!gpxe
echo "Hi, We will be using PXEKnife from URL http://www.alien.doesntexist.org/pxeknife/"
dhcp net0
set 209:string /pxeknife.cfg/default
set 210:string http://www.alien.doesntexist.org/pxeknife/
echo "Here we go"
chain http://www.alien.doesntexist.org/pxeknife/pxelinux.0

and I compile with following command 

 make clean && make  EMBEDDED_IMAGE=../contrib/scripts/forpxeknife.gpxe

I execute qemu with no extra parameters at-all. 

qemu -fda gpxe.dsk

Ready to use PXE-Knife over HTTP

If you want to try out PXE-Knife without installing then visit page pxeknifeOverHttp

Problems

In case you encounter any problems with this then you can refer the page QemuPxeKnifeHTTPProbs