VBox network boot

[Carl Johnson]

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.  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.
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Carl Johnson		carlj at peak.org