I have searched this forum, and the User Guide, but haven't yet found any indication that Parallels supports a network boot. Did I miss the obvious, or is this not supported, or perhaps, its planned for GA or a future release? Any information will be appreciated. Thanks! -Ian
The network adapter does not appear in the "Boot Sequence" options for a vm. That leads me to believe netboot is not an option in Parallels.
Yeah, I looked there too and was coming to the same conclusion. Though, since this is something that I could use, I was hoping that network boot might be something activated via hot-key or some other, less than obvious, means.
What did folks do before systems had PXE boot capabilities at the BIOS level. I presume some kind of boot disk was devised, that implemented the PXE request and then tftp'd and launched the bootstrap code? Anyone have a floppy or CD iso boot image with just enough networking drivers and scripts to "fake" a PXE boot in a Parallels environment? Or a pointer to something generic that could be tweaked? I'm willing to tinker. If we solve that, then the next question will be what sort of command-line / scriptable front-end is planned for Parallels such that we can manipulate the boot order (and move HDD ahead of the PXE boot image, after the fact)? \Leon
Sorry! I forgot to follow up to my own post. The solution you are looking for is at: http://etherboot.org/ That is how I was able to do a PXE boot after all. Just get one of the floppy ISO images and point Parallels at it (as a CD-image) and you are set. Works great!
