pxe boot for ipv6 only machine not working on vmware

[Jeroen Massar]

On 2016-07-01 13:41, Benedikt Stockebrand wrote:
> Hi Shilpa,
> 
> "S, Shilpashree 1. (Nokia - IN/Bangalore)" <shilpashree.1.s at nokia.com>
> writes:
> 
>> We have a case to install machine with ipv6 only using pxe boot.
> 
> bad news for you: PXE as per the Intel specs is IPv4 only.  Intel wants
> people to move from BIOS (and as such, PXE as a BIOS extension) to UEFI
> and has shown absolutely no intention to add IPv4 support to PXE.
> 
> Your options are
> 
>   - to use UEFI with a suitable module to boot via IPv6, which pretty
>     much defeats your use case for PXE to install the machine,

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UEFI/SecureBoot-PXE-IPv6

Similar instructions have worked as a charm for years already....

Greets,
 Jeroen