<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">I did screen shots of my config and put them on Dropbox so as to not spam the list with them. I’ve never tried this before, so let me know</div><div class="">if it doesn’t work. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lw07igfr4w9tkyn/AABW4e_A10VWc0NtzkWEJLHma?dl=0" class="">https://www.dropbox.com/sh/lw07igfr4w9tkyn/AABW4e_A10VWc0NtzkWEJLHma?dl=0</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t know why you would not want to get to fai sever from the network. It is much easier to ssh to from a host terminal window than use the dodgy</div><div class="">terminal emulation provided by VB. At any rate, you normally configure a VB instance with a network interface of some sort and in my very</div><div class="">painful experience trying to get PXE booting to work, you must have a bridged network connection for the fai server or you won’t be PXE booting.</div><div class="">And the network connection of the host must be wired. I know this doesn’t seem to make sense, but there are apparently hardware issues at work.</div><div class="">Others may well have a different solution, I don’t claim expertise, I just know what I got to work. I’d love the hear alternatives as I’m not totally comfortable</div><div class="">with why this works.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Good luck and please let me know if you get it to work, or if you can’t get to my dropbox.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Ron<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 26, 2016, at 4:18 PM, Christian Linden <<a href="mailto:lindomatic@gmail.com" class="">lindomatic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi Ronald,<br class=""><br class="">doesn’t work here.. for the pxeboot it’s not necessary to get on the fai-boxes from the VB host.. hence the internal network should be sufficient..<br class="">But.. for the case VB needs your setup for whatever reason.. could you please copy & paste your interface configs pls?<br class=""><br class="">Thank you!<br class="">Chris<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 26 Jan 2016, at 17:12, Ronald Steele <<a href="mailto:rsteele@adaptivemethods.com" class="">rsteele@adaptivemethods.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I’m working with this setup right now. TFTP seems to be working fine.<br class="">I’m using “Internal Network” for the installation clients. The fai server has two networks, the same “Internal Network” to boot the clients on and bridged network to get to it from the VB host.<br class="">You MUST have a wired, not WI-FI network because the bridged network will not work over WI-FI for most if not all WI-FI chips. I’ve never gotten it to work using a NATed network to the host, and I don’t know why.<br class="">Also, my VB host is a Mac Mini running the latest OSX.<br class="">Make sure you are running a VB version 5+ as it’s MUCH faster than earlier versions.<br class=""><br class="">Host this helps.<br class=""><br class="">Ron<br class=""><br class="">Now is someone could tell me why the client boot fails on the first boot from the hard drive, that would be great.<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 26, 2016, at 8:22 AM, Sven Schumacher <<a href="mailto:schumacher@tfd.uni-hannover.de" class="">schumacher@tfd.uni-hannover.de</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">You might try to change the type of network card, which is virtually<br class="">simulated by Virtualbox...<br class=""><br class="">Am 26.01.2016 um 14:19 schrieb Christian Linden:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">Thomas went through all steps with me for a couple of days.. and we both come the conclusion<br class="">that Virtual Box must be the culprit.<br class="">I’ve a faiserver as guest and want to pxe boot another guest; the client gets an IP address but not the pxelinux.0<br class="">Connecting locally on the faiserver with a tftp client the download works, hence the tftp server works.<br class=""><br class="">Does anyone know about this problem with/among VBox guests among each other?<br class=""><br class="">I checked all kinds of network VBox offers: Nat, Nat network, Internal Network, Bridged.. no way.<br class=""><br class="">Thanks so much!<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Chris<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">Sven Schumacher - Systemadministrator Tel: (0511)762-2753<br class="">Leibniz Universitaet Hannover<br class="">Institut für Turbomaschinen und Fluid-Dynamik - TFD<br class="">Appelstraße 9 - 30167 Hannover<br class="">Institut für Kraftwerkstechnik und Wärmeübertragung - IKW<br class="">Callinstraße 36 - 30167 Hannover<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>