Everything went on pretty smoothly, until I tried to boot up my first slave using PXE. Then I got the error message on the console of the new virtual machine:
FATAL: Could not read from the boot medium! System halted.
It seemed that the new virtual machine didn't even try make a connection to the dhcpd -server running on master. In PXE -boot, first thing that the client does is getting ip -address from the dhcpd -server. But nothing happened.
After two or three hours of testing and checking configuration files, in a moment of desperation, I tried to change the type of the network card from "Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop" to "PCnet-FAST III (Am79C973)" and everything started to work. Wicked.
Hopefully this will help someone :)
edit:
There seems to be a bug report for this already.
Make sure to install the Virtualbox extension pack and then you can use the Intel one. I didn't manage to get it working without the Intel care, because I wanted 64 bit.
VastaaPoistahttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/downloads/index.html#extpack
Jyrki, you're a lifesaver! I struggled with the same issue today.
VastaaPoistaI wouldn't have thought they kept some of the boot ROMs in an
"extension pack". WTF.
Thank you!
Eternal gratitude!
VastaaPoistaThanks! Extension pack fixed my problem:
VastaaPoistawhen I trusted to boot via PXE from WDS server, was error after recieving the IP from DHCP. Error: No filename
Fatal: could not read from the boot medium!...
Thanks a lot!
Thank you. Worked like a magic for me.
VastaaPoistaVery helpful! Thanks!
VastaaPoista