This is a followup to the qemu with PXE boot post I wrote a few years back. In this post I will cover the creation of a live filesystem using livemedia-creator, and PXE booting it with qemu and UEFI. I am assuming that you have some familiarity with using Anaconda to install Fedora, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As well as with my previous posts about livemedia-creator .

Building the image with livemedia-creator

The creation process is similar to creating live isos but instead of an iso we will create the live root filesystem. This is an ext4 filesystem that is compressed using squashfs, and it is the same as the rootfs used on the boot.iso and live isos.

I was expecting to spend the whole afternoon getting a tftp server setup so I could PXE boot some qemu virtual machines for testing. I wanted to make sure it didn’t interfere with anything else on the LAN so it would have to be limited to the user mode network I use with my vms. Typically when I try to do something like this I end up trying a bunch of different things that don’t quite work right. Today was the exception. I started out by reading the qemu manpage, which is very verbose but full of great information.