Trying to PXE Boot Netboot.xyz from an Incus VM

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incus init Netboot --vm --empty -c limits.cpu=2 -c limits.memory=4GB -c security.secureboot=false --profile default --profile bridgeprofile
incus config device add Netboot pxeboot disk source=/home/scott/Downloads/netboot.xyz.iso boot.priority=10
incus start Netboot --console=vga

In the above code snippet, profile bridgeprofile gets an address from my main LAN.
I am trying to boot from the netboot.xyz iso.
Here’s how it ends up:

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If I manually enter my adapter, IP, netmask, gateway, etc then it sorta tries and then ends up at the BIOS screen.

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Any ideas on how to get this working?

Booting to netboot.xyz works on my network from a bare metal machine.

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Not sure why it’s being unhappy, it’s clearly seeing the network interface but is acting as if it couldn’t use it somehow.

You may want to give security.csm=true a try which should then let you pick legacy boot from the boot manager, booting in BIOS mode may get you around the issue.

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I had tried that earlier. Hard to understand since this works in QEMU.

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Figured it out, it’s an issue with netboot.xyz and IPv6, it may be worth reporting that to them.

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That is AMAZING! Wow, I just never saw that as an issue. Working thanks to you. Clearly IPv6 was getting in the way. You are my hero sir.