[ipxe-devel] building for use virtualbox

Andrew Bobulsky rulerof at gmail.com
Wed Jan 30 19:57:51 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Warren Turkal <wt at ooyala.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the tip. The filesize shrank a bit even though I turned HTTP
> and IPV4 back on. See the following:
> $ du -b bin/8086100e.rom bin/virtio-net.rom
> 57344 bin/8086100e.rom
> 56320 bin/virtio-net.rom
>
> Wow, that bin/8086100e.rom is just under the bar for working with vbox.
>
> So, I also removed AOE and added TFTP. The image is still just small
> enough, and it works in vbox now...score!
>
> Thanks,
> wt
>

Great news, and congrats!

If you don't mind, would you share your exact feature set?  I guess a list
of what you modified, basically, to reach your desired ROM size?  It's a
little scattered through the emails :)

Cheers,
Andrew Bobulsky
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