[ipxe-devel] ipxe and vmware workstation 8 or virtualbox 4.1.2

[Edward Villalovoz]

Hi,

              I'm using the latest ipxe and I compiled it in Centos 6.  I'm
basically using ipxe to provide me with a static IP to pxe boot my ESXi 5
hosts across a layer 3 network since I do not have DHCP available on the
other VLANs where my ESXi hosts are located on.  My test environment in my
office is an ESXi server with multiple subnets trunked into it so that I can
have my iPXE host on one VLAN (say 10) and my Centos 6 host on a different
VLAN (say 20).  I have this setup this way so I can test layer 3 routing
with ipxe.  And for the most part, it's working fine except for I have 2
issues.

 

1.       ipxe passes the command line boot arguments in the format of
ip=<IP>:x:x:x:x etc.  Is there a way to have it pass the arguments like
ip=xxx netmask=xxx gateway=xxx etc?  It's my understanding that this new
format was changed some time ago, but I need the older format for the
project I'm working on.

2.       If I use ipxe in a VM on ESXi 4.1 and put a static IP in it
"ifopen; set net0/ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xx; set net0/netmask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; set
net0/gateway xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" everything works fine and I can ping the IP
from another subnet on my network.  But on my home network all I have is
vmware workstation or virtual box so I'm not testing layer 3, but only
layer2.  So I'm using the same ipxe.iso file that worked fine in my ESXi 4.1
environment at home in my vmware/virtualbox environment.  My issue is after
I start pinging the ipxe host's IP from my Centos 6 host, it response for
about 5-8 replies, then it just stops responding to a ping from my Centos 6
host.  I don't understand why it works fine on type 1 hypervisors, but not
on type 2.

 

Anything light you can shed on this would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks Ed 

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