VBox network boot

[Carl Johnson]

Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> writes:

> 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.

Thank you, that makes it perfectly clear.  I had initially ignored that
suggestion, thinking that it wasn't important!
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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org