[Etherboot-discuss] Running gpxe in a virtual machine - how to?

[Anselm M. H. <an...@ho...>]

Hi,

thanks Michael for telling me how to git the source. Git indeed seems
interesting - and it worked fine.

Now that I have a source repository, code that compiles etc., I would
like to run gpxe in an emulator. Qemu or Bochs would be fine... but I do
not manage to boot.

In qemu, both gpxe-[master] and etherboot latest from rom-o-matic detect
the rtl8139 NIC (running qemu -net nic,rtl8139 ...yadda), but seem to
detect a MAC address of FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. This obviously is not sane,
and fails as expected to talk to the DHCP on the other end of the
virtual cable, wireshark does not detect a single packet coming from
qemu. "lance" will not even detect a NIC at all. This is true for using
etherboot/gpxe as option rom (-boot n), external option rom
(-option-rom) or floppy image file.

The NIC type documented to work within bochs (pnic) seems not to be
supported by gpxe at the moment.

So how do you folks develop/test-run gpxe?

Thanks

Anselm