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Is it possible to implement iPXE on an EC2 instance so that it boots from an image saved on S3 (preferred) or from an image saved on another EC2 instance?

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Not. iPXE and the more general class of PVS engines require low-level (often Hypervisor) access to the server in order to "glue" the boot image onto the virtual machine. This is not available in EC2, and in fact I'm not sure any public cloud service will allow this, as a rogue operation at this level could compromise everything on the host.



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IPXE does not support AWS EC2 PV, but iPXE can be used with AWS EC2 HVM instances.



For more information: http://forum.ipxe.org/showthread.php?tid=7913

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