VBox network boot

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Carl Johnson wrote:

> Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> writes:
>
>> 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.
>
> Please emphasize that the PCnet-PCI II card emulation is necessary.

Updated in the PXE article, thanks.