Steven Shiau wrote:
Hi, Does anyone successfully use the virtual network card Intel PRO/1000 to PXE boot the virtual machine? I have setup a PXE server to provide the PXE booting on tap0, and if I use PCnet-FAST III (Bridged adapter, tap0), I can successfully PXE boot the virtual machine. However, if I use the setting: Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop (Bridged adapter, tap0), it fails with the error message: FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.
Pretty much expected behavior, as Makefile.kmk in the directory Etherboot-src builds Etherboot in a way which only includes the pcnet32 driver. There are no other drivers in our subset of the Etherboot source tree. So adding boot support for Intel network cards would require adding the necessary driver to our tree, and adapt the build process so that it creates an Etherboot ROM which contains both the pcnet32 and e1000 drivers.
So far no one complained, and as the closed source version comes with the Intel PXE code I assume very few people noticed.
Out of curiosity: why are you still using tap devices?
I am using Virtualbox OSE 3.0.8. Anything special I have to pay attention for Intel Pro/1000 card? Does anyone know how should I make it? Thanks.
Hope that points in the right direction... Klaus _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
