Re: [9fans] why not Lvx for Plan 9?

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:15 PM, William Josephson <jkw@eecs.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 03:03:45PM -0500, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote:
>> I setup every machine on my network to tftpboot (BIOS), and they all
>> tftpboot a kernel+ramdisk which has everything necessary to startup
>> lguest/kvm plan9 and passthrough I/O requests to the disk/network.
>> Admin done.
>
> I've found setting up diskless boot with Linux to be a major
> pain with most of the common distributions.  I guess it has
> been a while since I last looked: how do you make it work
> reliably with updates without effectively rolling your own
> distribution?
>

I didn't do the grunt work on this one, my friends in Germany built
the setup to run xcpu, but it can be adapted just as easily to run the
KVM drones.  Mind you, the "distribution" in this case is hardly
anything -- just the necessary tools to start lguest/kvm and get
tun/tap working properly to get to the underlying network.  You should
effectively be able to build this by hand with any distro.

        -eric