[ipxe-devel] building for use virtualbox

[Warren Turkal]

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?

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 <http://etherboot.org/wiki/romburning/vbox>. 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
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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 <http://www.ooyala.com/blog> |
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