Anyone using Oracle virtual box for their V labs?

Snow.brosSnow.bros Member Posts: 832 ■■■■□□□□□□
I am trying to experiment on WDS, I am struggling to get client computer to do a PXE boot using Oracle Virtual Box, I have tried to change the boot order but there is no option to PXE.

Does any have any experience on the above? Please feel free to share.

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  • ShdwmageShdwmage Member Posts: 374
    From a security perspective I won't use PXE boot. It always goes for the closest PXE server. A cleaver hacker could put themselves on the same switch and have higher priority than your real PXE server.
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  • unfbilly11unfbilly11 Member Posts: 100 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I am using Virtual Box for my lab setup as well, and I also had difficulty doing this. Make sure that "Network" is set as priorty 1 in the boot order, that's the PXE boot. If you don't have a "Network" option, you are probably using an old version of Virtual Box. My PXE boot saw my WDS server and DHCP server and was handed an IP correctly, and then just crashed. I didn't really spend too much time on it after that because everything looked like it was configured correctly, I just kinda chalked it up to using Virtual Box and pfSense to causing some kind of problem.
  • Snow.brosSnow.bros Member Posts: 832 ■■■■□□□□□□
    Thanks for the replies guys!

    @Shdwmage I want to use the PXE boot to test if I can use WDS to deploy an image. The server is not exposed to the internet.

    @Unfbilly11 I managed to change the boot order to boot to the Network. When I boot the client computer it does not get an IP address as it does not see the DHCP server.
  • unfbilly11unfbilly11 Member Posts: 100 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Are you using the same NIC on the client machine as you do on the DHCP server? I mean from within Virtual Box....Any DHCP errors in event viewer on the DHCP server?
  • unfbilly11unfbilly11 Member Posts: 100 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Just an update to my earlier post...maybe it will help you or someone in the future... I looked into this more this evening and I resolved my problem with Virtual Box and my WDS server by changing the TFTP settings on my WDS server. Before, I was getting an error message right after connecting to my DHCP server. I changed the TFTP maximum block size to 512 (the lowest it will go) and unchecked "Enable Variable Window Extension" and I was able to boot to my WDS and install an image.
  • Snow.brosSnow.bros Member Posts: 832 ■■■■□□□□□□
    unfbilly11 wrote: »
    Are you using the same NIC on the client machine as you do on the DHCP server? I mean from within Virtual Box....Any DHCP errors in event viewer on the DHCP server?

    Yes, I will have a look at it.
    unfbilly11 wrote: »
    I changed the TFTP maximum block size to 512 (the lowest it will go) and unchecked "Enable Variable Window Extension" and I was able to boot to my WDS and install an image.

    Noted that thanks for the reply.
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