VBox network boot

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Tue Feb 28 16:15:27 UTC 2012


On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Da Rock wrote:

> I'm starting to believe this dog won't hunt (in fact is dead, bloated, and 
> full of worms...); but has anyone got a solution for network booting in VBox 
> on FBSD host?

To PXE-boot a VM guest, set networking to to Bridged and use the 
PCnet-PCI II (Am79C970A) adapter type.  If the host is FreeBSD, the 
vboxnet kernel module has to be loaded.


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