[Call for Testers] VirtualBox 4.2.0

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Dan Nelson wrote:

> In the last episode (Sep 20), Marek Salwerowicz said:
>> W dniu 2012-09-20 08:02, Bernhard Fröhlich pisze:
>>> Hi virtualbox users!
>>>
>>> I am very glad to be able to send out a VirtualBox 4.2.0 call for
>>> testers.  We've done a good job pushing many patches upstream before the
>>> release this time so our port is much smaller and easier to handle.
>>
>> thanks for the release - I will do some tests and let you know about the
>> results.
>>
>> By the way - can you tell me if there are any plans for releasing the
>> Extension Pack for FreeBSD?  I'd really like to have the Intel E1000 PXE
>> support in virtual machine.
>
> If you're adventurous, you could try embedding the iPXE bootcode into the
> emulated E1000's BIOS instead:
>
> http://www.ipxe.org/
> http://etherboot.org/wiki/romburning/vbox

Interesting!  There is even an image of the ROM downloadable if you 
enter vendor 8086 and device 100E. 
http://rom-o-matic.net/gpxe/gpxe-1.0.1/contrib/rom-o-matic/

% VBoxManage setextradata global VBoxInternal/Devices/pcbios/0/Config/LanBootRom gpxe-1.0.1-8086100e.rom

Set bridged mode, choose the Intel Pro/1000 MT adapter, boot from Lan... 
but it still only shows "FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! 
System halted."