dhcpoptionsnetworklist parameter in "deployVirtualMachine" doesn't work with VR as provider

[kiranchavala]

problem

dhcpoptionsnetworklist parameter in "deployVirtualMachine" doesn't work with VR as provider

As a user/operator I want to boot my vm from a PXE server via dhcpoptionsnetworklist

versions

ACS 4.20.x

The steps to reproduce the bug

1. Launch a isolated or a shared network

2. Create a pxe server vm which acts like a TFTP server

For example, you can create a pxe template/iso from the following pxe

https://netboot.xyz/
https://github.com/ventoy/PXE/releases
https://canonical.com/maas

3. Register pxe iso

https://boot.ipxe.org/ipxe.iso

4. Launch vm via API with the ISO with dhcpoptionsnetworklist, by pointing the IP of the pxe server in the same network

deploy virtualmachine zoneid=193a5741-05c9-4fe3-84d3-29a869ba1528 serviceofferingid=551f20c3-83d5-4e4a-bc50-d1c10974da57 networkids=dd6fe1cb-3ffa-4c1f-8472-8b438b4a7f6c
dhcpoptionsnetworklist[0].networkid=dd6fe1cb-3ffa-4c1f-8472-8b438b4a7f6c dhcpoptionsnetworklist[0].dhcp:66=10.1.1.27 dhcpoptionsnetworklist[0].dhcp:67=pxelinux.0

5. Check the db and the details are stored

mysql> select * from nic_extra_dhcp_options;
+----+--------------------------------------+--------+------+------------+
| id | uuid                                 | nic_id | code | value      |
+----+--------------------------------------+--------+------+------------+
|  1 | 83af66c0-01f3-4033-a9ac-89c819cfe485 |     31 |   66 | 10.1.1.27  |
|  2 | 0c0ef9f5-3f28-45ed-8ed1-e2e3cb28cc49 |     31 |   67 | pxelinux.0 |

5. During the vm boot time the request still goes to the virtual router instead of the pxe server

HTTP://10.1.1.1/pxelinux.0 and fails to run

Workaround

Log in to the VR and add the following content

Comment the following lines

#enable-tftp
#tftp-root=/opt/tftpboot
#dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0

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Add the following lines

dhcp-option=66,10.1.1.27
dhcp-option=67,pxelinux.0
dhcp-boot=pxelinux.0,,10.1.1.27

Restart the dnsmasq service

service dnsmasq restart

What to do about it?

Currently dhcpoptionsnetworklist parameter may probably work with only NuageVsp plugin and not with VR

It would be great if we can support this for VR so that end user can boot from a pxe server