[gPXE] Boot off localhost

Shao Miller Shao.Miller at yrdsb.edu.on.ca
Tue Mar 23 09:28:33 EDT 2010


Hsuan-Yeh Chang wrote:
> Michael:  Thanks!  Here is the pxelinux.cfg/default.  Am I missing 
> something?  HYC

I think that "localhost" is usually aliased to 127.0.0.1, which means 
"this very system."  A virtual machine is a system of its own, so 
"localhost" in a VM means the VM, not the VM's host.  Use the VM's 
host's IP address, instead, and make sure not to use 127.0.0.1.

- Shao Miller
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