From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 29 00:13:58 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B847106564A for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@herveybayaustralia.com.au) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (mail.unitedinsong.com.au [150.101.178.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CA878FC08 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.unitedinsong.com.au (bell.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.40]) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 579D05C28 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:27:25 +1000 (EST) Received: from laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au (laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au [192.168.0.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.unitedinsong.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DE695C22 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:27:24 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4F4D6C99.1000604@herveybayaustralia.com.au> Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:08:57 +1000 From: Da Rock User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111109 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4F4CD476.4020005@herveybayaustralia.com.au> <87d38yc2is.fsf@oak.localnet> In-Reply-To: <87d38yc2is.fsf@oak.localnet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: VBox network boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:13:58 -0000 On 02/29/12 03:04, Carl Johnson wrote: > Warren Block 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. I > was trying the Intel emulation and making no progress. I then noticed > your page and tried the PCnet-PCI II card and it started working. I > would guess that means their Intel card emulation is incomplete. I took it for granted the bridge part (I usually use it anyway), but I would never have guessed the PCnet card in a blue fit! There was even a PR on virtualbox for the issue of the lack of PXE with Oracle basically saying "too bad, so sad...". Apparently PXE licensing didn't allow them to distribute it directly, but offer an extension pack (which doesn't work on FBSD) instead. Ergo my conclusion. Apparently (based on this thread) it only affects intel cards though... Where is your page Warren, and why didn't it show up in my searches? ;) I'll follow it from here on out I think... Thanks guys... saved me a lot more fussing!