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  Thread: VMware/VirtualBox is freezing when loading a kernel/initrd (linux/windows).
Post: RE: VMware/VirtualBox is freezing when loading a k...

Still not sure what the root cause was, but the problem does go away when using VMXNET3 virtual adapter. We're able to consistently get kernel images and build VMs on VSphere 5.0 via both TFTP and HT...
apitanga General 11 48,762 2014-02-18, 16:50
  Thread: If statement based on IP address?
Post: RE: If statement based on IP address?

What's going on is that I have four different data-centers with different subnets and I'm trying to come up with a single iPXE boot that I can distribute to hypervisors/bare-metal on each location/sub...
apitanga General 4 18,242 2014-02-04, 02:43
  Thread: VMware/VirtualBox is freezing when loading a kernel/initrd (linux/windows).
Post: RE: VMware/VirtualBox is freezing when loading a k...

Thanks, antonym and Torgeir. I will look into what virtual NIC is in use and will also test it using TFTP instead. Another angle I'm exploring relates to STP convergence in VMware: http://blogs.vm...
apitanga General 11 48,762 2014-02-04, 01:58
  Thread: VMware/VirtualBox is freezing when loading a kernel/initrd (linux/windows).
Post: RE: VMware/VirtualBox is freezing when loading a k...

I'm running into this issue as well. I have an iPXE script like this: Code: #!ipxe set mirror http://server.org set repo ${mirror}/ks/dist/ks-rhel-x86_64-server-6-6.5 kernel ${repo}/images/...
apitanga General 11 48,762 2014-01-29, 20:36
  Thread: If statement based on IP address?
Post: If statement based on IP address?

Is there a variable for subnet? I'm trying to point to different chain scripts depending on the subnet from which the request originates. Something like this: Code: #!ipxe dhcp goto ${subnet} ...
apitanga General 4 18,242 2014-01-23, 16:23