Configuring and testing the PXE boot

We can create a virtual machine instance to test the environment. We will demonstrate this in the Ubuntu 14.04 environment. The same setup can be duplicated to the Windows or OS X environment as well.

Setting up the virtual machine

Let's create a virtual machine called pxeAndroid in VirtualBox first. After starting the VirtualBox, we can click the New button to create a new virtual machine, as shown in the following screenshot:

We call it pxeAndroid and choose Linux as the type of virtual machine. We can just follow the wizard to create this virtual machine with a suitable configuration. After the virtual machine is created, we need to make a few changes to the settings.

The first thing that needs to be changed is the network...