[gPXE] [Qemu-devel] [RFC] gPXE fw_cfg file interface support

Shao Miller Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
Sun Feb 7 21:23:32 EST 2010


Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>
> ...Then you can easily have qemu guests netboot from somewhere without any
> local pxe/tftp setup, like this:
>
>    qemu -fw-file gpxe/default=bko.gpxe
>

That looks a bit like:

# qemu -kernel gpxe.lkrn -initrd bko.gpxe -hda /dev/null

which might be useful iff the *.lkrn build target feature for using an 
initrd as a gPXE startup script is incorporated into gPXE mainline.  Of 
course, it's different because an .lkrn is not a ROM.

- Shao Miller
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