[ipxe-devel] building for use virtualbox

[Mark Gollahon]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 7:00 AM,  <ipxe-devel-request at lists.ipxe.org> wrote:
>
> On 24.01.2013 18:09, Andrew Bobulsky wrote:
>> 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 use the vboxmanage command to replace the built-in pxe rom in
> vbox with the one built from the ipxe source you're most likely getting
> the bundled ipxe from vbox, not the one you compiled. I have tried a
> bunch of alternatives to make it load a custom ROM, but I've been
> unsuccessful so far. If you figure it out, please report back.
>
> -- Robin

When I was building iPXE for VBox (a year ago now? check archives), I
had to get the binary down below about 56-58K before VBox would load
it.  Note that VBox docs say <64K but that never worked for me.

Regards,
Mark