Custom BIOS/BootROM for aVM
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Hi,
I would like to load BootROM for my network card into the VM, the card runs with SR-IOV, so the VM gets a VF from the card. I already have the ROM extracted. It is possible with KVM, and I wonder if it would be possible to do something similar with XCP-ng.
If it is not possible to load BootROM, maybe it would be possible to customize the BIOS / UEFI that is loaded into the VM?
The story is that I would like to boot a diskless VM directly from SAN over SR-IOV to avoid virtualization latencies, and the card I want to use is not recognizeb by iPXE, thus loading a manufacturer Boot ROM would solve the issue.
I know I can boot from a small "boot image" disk attached through a hypervisor, and then boot from SAN based on initrd drivers however this would make it much more complicated to provision/install multiple VMs in the cluster this way, and I would prefer a more straightforward way.
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I'm not aware of such possibility, but let me ask around
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Sure,
Another thing is that included iPXE is a version that does not support multipath SAN boot (I guess it would be nice to update it)
