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)

I believe it would be nice to add a new mode of installation:

Put /boot on USB/sdcard, put everything else on HDD/SSD/NVMe/SAN.

This way we would be able to:

1. Use any device as main disk (root FS) device, even if the server itself does not support booting from it
2. Avoid problems with dying media due to excessive overwrites

It should be relatively simple addition I believe and could have a lot of value for people working on older hardware (like HP DL < Gen9, booting from NVMe/SAS in passthrough mode) etc.

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.