[ipxe-devel] building for use virtualbox
Mark Gollahon
mgollahon at exacq.com
Mon Jan 28 19:29:31 UTC 2013
Warren, I'd suggest making an iPXE *test* build that removes HTTP
support just to see if you can get it below the 57344 byte mark and,
if so, see if it loads and runs. You can always play around with
including and excluding features later. At least, that's the way I
approached getting iPXE running in VBox.
> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 10:46:40 -0800
> From: Warren Turkal <wt at ooyala.com>
> To: Steve Cross <hairlesshobo at stevecross.org>
> Cc: ipxe-devel at lists.ipxe.org
> Subject: Re: [ipxe-devel] building for use virtualbox
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> I've added the following to config/local/general.h:
> #undef PRODUCT_NAME
> #define PRODUCT_NAME "WT" /* So that I'll know it's loading */
> #undef DOWNLOAD_PROTO_TFTP /* Trivial File Transfer Protocol */
> #undef PXE_MENU /* PXE menu booting */
> #undef CRYPTO_80211_WEP /* WEP encryption (deprecated and
> insecure!) */
> #undef CRYPTO_80211_WPA /* WPA Personal, authenticating with
> passphrase */
> #undef CRYPTO_80211_WPA2 /* Add support for stronger WPA
> cryptography */
> #undef IWMGMT_CMD /* Wireless interface management commands */
> #undef FCMGMT_CMD /* Fibre Channel management commands */
> #undef SANBOOT_CMD /* SAN boot commands */
>
> The ISCSI stuff appears to be disabled by default in config/general.h.
> Here's the sized of the virtio-net.rom and the 8086100e.rom files:
> $ du -b bin/8086100e.rom bin/virtio-net.rom
> 62464 bin/8086100e.rom
> 61952 bin/virtio-net.rom
>
> These still aren't small enough (57344 bytes according to Klaus). I guess
> it just isn't possible to get them small enough while retaining HTTP
> support.
>
> And here's even a build undefing DOWNLOAD_PROTO_TFTP on top of the above
> config:
> $ du -b bin/8086100e.rom bin/virtio-net.rom
> 59904 bin/8086100e.rom
> 58880 bin/virtio-net.rom
>
> So it looks like something else big might be hiding in there somewhere.
>
> Also, they build to the same sizes if I undef NET_PROTO_IPV4 on top of the
> no-HTTP config above, so it looks like that config option might not make
> any difference. Is that expected?
>
> BTW, I am doing "make clean && make bin/8086100e.rom bin/virtio-net.rom"
> for each of these builds.
>
> wt
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Steve Cross
> <hairlesshobo at stevecross.org>wrote:
>
>> From what I've read online, the easiest way to shrink the size of the
>> final binary is to remote iSCSI support - assuming that you don't need it.
>> If iSCSI/SAN is not something that you are planning to use inside of
>> VirtualBox, then you could remove support for that and it should make it
>> small enough to load into VirtualBox.
>>
>> -Steve
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Warren Turkal <wt at ooyala.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm not really sure at this point. Robin's comment sent me on a hunt. I
>>> found the following in the logs:
>>> DevPcBios: Failed to open LAN boot ROM file '/Users/wt/VirtualBox
>>> VMs/8086100e.rom', rc=VERR_TOO_MUCH_DATA!
>>>
>>> So, I guess it isn't loading my ipxe rom. I'll see if I can figure out
>>> how to cut it down to the needed size (apparently needs to be <58K). Does
>>> anyone have any suggestions for how to trim the size without removing http
>>> support?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> wt
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:29 AM, Thomas Miletich <
>>> thomas.miletich at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Warren Turkal <wt at ooyala.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > I am definitely getting the iPXE as it has splash screen like the one
>>>> Andrew linked. Also, I can hit ctrl-b and exec ipxe commands, which is not
>>>> possible with the built-in PXE. What isn't working is the HTTP protocol
>>>> support.
>>>> >
>>>> > Also, my config/local/general.h is empty, so I don't think it's
>>>> overriding anything.
>>>> >
>>>> > Here's another datapoint:
>>>> > $ grep http 8086100e.rom.tmp.map | head -n2
>>>> > bin/blib.a(http.o) bin/blib.a(config.o) (obj_http)
>>>> > bin/blib.a(httpcore.o) bin/blib.a(http.o) (http_open_filter)
>>>> >
>>>> > The 8086100e.rom.tmp also has evidence of http. So, it looks like some
>>>> http code has made it that far...I just can't use it. I don't know if it's
>>>> just being stripped from the final rom binary, but there is no instace of
>>>> http outside of a couple web addresses in 8086100e.rom. See the following:
>>>> > $ strings 8086100e.rom | grep -i http
>>>> > http://ipxe.org
>>>> > iPXE (http://ipxe.org)
>>>> > $ strings 8086100e.rom.tmp | grep -i http
>>>> > http://ipxe.org
>>>> > iPXE (http://ipxe.org)
>>>> > [36mhttp://ipxe.org
>>>> > See http://ipxe.org/cmd/%s for further information
>>>> > http
>>>> > %s (http://ipxe.org/%08x)
>>>> > Error %#08x (http://ipxe.org/%08x)
>>>> > http://ipxe.org/cfg/%s
>>>> >
>>>> > Why does the 8086100e.rom not have as many "http"-containing strings?
>>>>
>>>> The .rom image is compressed, the .rom.tmp isn't. So you won't be able
>>>> to identify strings in the .rom image. If you can find them in the
>>>> corresponding .rom.tmp image it should be fine.
>>>>
>>>> Are you really sure you're loading the correct image?
>>>>
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > wt
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Andrew Bobulsky <rulerof at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >>
>>>> >> On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Warren Turkal <wt at ooyala.com> wrote:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> iPXE devs,
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I have successfully built ipxe and used it in virtualbox much like
>>>> the instructions here. However, when I do the "make bin/8086100e.rom", the
>>>> rom image does not appear to contain the HTTP support code as I cannot use
>>>> http urls in the ipxe shell after boot and hitting ctrl-b. Commands like
>>>> with "imgfetch http://192.0.0.1/blah.img" fail with the following error:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Could not start download: Operation not supported (
>>>> http://ipxe.org/3c092003)
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> The HTTP code does appear to be built by default since I see
>>>> "#define DOWNLOAD_PROTO_HTTP" in the general.h. I also see the following:
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> $ grep -i http bin/8086100e.rom
>>>> >>> Binary file bin/8086100e.rom matches
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> However, I do see "TFTP" and do not see "HTTP" in the "Features:"
>>>> line of iPXE that shows before the prompt.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> I am using the tip of master for this test. The commit id is
>>>> "3fcb8cf8dceb45f8b01e1d69d43cfd99df43b78a".
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Is there anything else that I should be doing to enable HTTP support
>>>> in the iPXE rom that I am building.
>>>> >>>
>>>> >>> Thanks,
>>>> >>> wt
>>>> >>> --
>>>> >>> Warren Turkal
>>>> >>> Site Reliability Engineer |
>>>> >>> wt at ooyala.com | 650-961-3400
>>>> >>> www.ooyala.com | blog | @ooyala
>>>> >>>
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>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Hello Warren,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If you are indeed having build-related problems, I wouldn't be able
>>>> to help you much, but I wanted to write as I've experienced this before.
>>>> Virtualbox includes a version of iPXE that has very limited protocol
>>>> support, and it is the default PXE ROM in every vbox VM I have used. If,
>>>> for some reason, your attempt to inject the ROM into your Virtualbox VM's
>>>> configuration didn't work, it would load the built-in version instead, and
>>>> while you'd be loading iPXE (which would look like a successful
>>>> implementation, but of course is just the old, built-in ROM loading). That
>>>> built-in iPXE splash screen looks like this:
>>>> http://i.imgur.com/gfVjURG.png
>>>> >>
>>>> >> If you like, the only test I could suggest that might shed some light
>>>> on whether or not your features are being included in the build, you can
>>>> instead...
>>>> >>
>>>> >> $ make bin/8086100e.pxe
>>>> >>
>>>> >> ...and then chainload *that* file from a TFTP server using the iPXE
>>>> inside of your VM, and check to see if your features work. If they do,
>>>> it's quite likely you just need some updated guide on how to replace your
>>>> VirtualBox NIC's ROM.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Cheers,
>>>> >> Andrew Bobulsky
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Warren Turkal
>>>> > Site Reliability Engineer |
>>>> > wt at ooyala.com | 650-961-3400
>>>> > www.ooyala.com | blog | @ooyala
>>>> >
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>>>> >
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> *Warren Turkal*
>>> Site Reliability Engineer |
>>> wt at ooyala.com | 650-961-3400
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>
>
> --
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> wt at ooyala.com | 650-961-3400
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