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PXE Boot with Veeam recovery ISO

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Is it possible to PXE boot from the Veeam recovery iso?
I have been trying being we are using Oracle VM (based off of XENServer) for a small subset of our systems.
I know for the most part this is UEFI bootable, but I have seen some people that have had to do that.

OVM doesn't have a BIOs boot option in the VM (like any other Hypervisor) so trying to adjust the VM boot order to boot from CD is mildly risky being it involves hacking the VMConfig file.

Any help would be awesome
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Re: PXE Boot with Veeam recovery ISO

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Hi,

If I'm not mistaken the VM you're talking about is paravirtualized. Unfortunately VAL does not support paravirtualized VMs.

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Re: PXE Boot with Veeam recovery ISO

Post by pj888888888888 »

FYI, we found a workaround in OVM/XEN to allow you to use the boot iso.
You would need to run the following commands from the OVM/XEN host:
  • -Place Veeam Recovery ISO on OVM Repository.
    -From OVM host (via SSH) where VM is registered, mount ISO:
    mkdir /media/<dir_name>
    mount –o ro,loop /<path_to_repo>/<recovery_iso_name>.iso /media/<dir_name>
    -Modify VM config file:
    cd /<path_to_vm_config>
    cp vm.cfg vm.cfg.orig
    vi vm.cfg
    Comment out the following line: bootloader = "/usr/bin/pygrub"
    Add the following lines:
    kernel = "/media/<dir_name>/velinuz"
    ramdisk = "/media/<dir_name>/initrd.img"
    -Boot VM from GUI and perform recovery process via console.
    -When recovery operations are complete, power off VM from GUI.
    -Perform cleanup:
    umount /media/<dir_name>
    rmdir /media/<dir_name>
    cd /<path_to_vm_config>
    mv vm.cfg.orig vm.cfg
    -Power on VM from GUI.
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