[gPXE] No network devices found when using gpxe and virtualbox

[Nathan Mitchell]

Sean,

      You may be on top of the issue. I solved my problem by switching from the most current version of virtualbox in their own repo to the ose version in ubuntu lucid's repo. The problem vanished. 

      I don't know which version of the bios is used in both versions, but your issues make the most sense as to what might have gone wrong. Does anyone know how the version of the bios may
      be retrieved from virtualbox? I assume its just another flag one can pass to qemu, but I don't know enough about the guts of virtualbox.

          -- Nathan


On Jun 28, 2010, at 11:13 PM, Sean Shoufu Luo wrote:

> I have met similar problem in Bochs 4.2 some day before. And resolved with Stefan's help. Maybe not the same problem as you, just paste the link for you reference:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/gpxe@etherboot.org/msg00179.html
> 
> Good Luck!
> 
> Sean
> 
> On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Nathan Mitchell <nmitchel at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> Okay guys,
> 
>         Here is a strange one. I'm putting together a series of virtual machines for testing some boot management software. We have the setup mirrored with physical hardware, so
>   I know it works.
> 
>         The basic setup is one machine will run several virtual machines and when they boot they need to load gpxe from tftp. This part works, gpxe is successfully found and loaded,
>   thus the network functions up till this point. However, once gpxe loads and probes for network interfaces, it displays the "No more network devices" message. Just the header and that message.
>   I am at a loss as to what is going on here. I've tried different virtual network cards and even loading gpxe as the vm's rom - all have produced the same results. Now I've seen other people use
>   gpxe with virtualbox and even the wiki has instructions ( those I followed for the rom ), so I believe its possible but I must be doing something wrong. If anyone has any ideas on how I might figure out
>   whats happening here, I'd be most grateful.
> 
>          -- Nathan
> 
>   VM info:
> 
> Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4
> (C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
> All rights reserved.
> 
> Name:            vm01
> Guest OS:        Other Linux
> UUID:            af9b754f-fe1a-4413-af86-4336398bdbb1
> Config file:     /home/vmadmin/.VirtualBox/Machines/vm01/vm01.xml
> Hardware UUID:   af9b754f-fe1a-4413-af86-4336398bdbb1
> Memory size:     128MB
> Page Fusion:     off
> VRAM size:       8MB
> HPET:            off
> Number of CPUs:  1
> Synthetic Cpu:   off
> CPUID overrides: None
> Boot menu mode:  message and menu
> Boot Device (1): Network
> Boot Device (2): DVD
> Boot Device (3): HardDisk
> Boot Device (4): Not Assigned
> ACPI:            on
> IOAPIC:          off
> PAE:             on
> Time offset:     0 ms
> RTC:             local time
> Hardw. virt.ext: on
> Hardw. virt.ext exclusive: on
> Nested Paging:   on
> Large Pages:     off
> VT-x VPID:       on
> State:           running (since 2010-06-28T14:41:48.322000000)
> Monitor count:   1
> 3D Acceleration: off
> 2D Video Acceleration: off
> Teleporter Enabled: off
> Teleporter Port: 0
> Teleporter Address:
> Teleporter Password:
> NIC 1:           MAC: 080027C021E6, Attachment: Host-only Interface 'tap1', Cable connected: on, Trace: off (file: none), Type: Am79C973, Reported speed: 0 Mbps, Boot priority: 0
> NIC 2:           disabled
> NIC 3:           disabled
> NIC 4:           disabled
> NIC 5:           disabled
> NIC 6:           disabled
> NIC 7:           disabled
> NIC 8:           disabled
> Pointing Device: PS/2 Mouse
> Keyboard Device: PS/2 Keyboard
> UART 1:          I/O base: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4, attached to pipe (client) '/vbox_serial/vm01_A'
> UART 2:          disabled
> Audio:           disabled
> Clipboard Mode:  Bidirectional
> Video mode:      720x400x0
> VRDP:            disabled
> USB:             disabled
> 
> USB Device Filters:
> 
> <none>
> 
> Available remote USB devices:
> 
> <none>
> 
> Currently Attached USB Devices:
> 
> <none>
> 
> Shared folders:  <none>
> 
> VRDP Connection:    not active
> Clients so far:     0
> 
> Guest:
> 
> Configured memory balloon size:      0 MB
> 
> 
> 
> 
> VM logs:
>     see attached
> 
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