I’m just commenting because I think what you’re doing is interesting.
By apu2c are you referring to these: https://pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm?
That looks wicked cool.
Virtual Box is exactly how I started playing with MAAS.
- Have you checked that your MAAS controllers PXE interface is bridged to the physical network that the node is plugged into.
- Have you configured your subnets and enabled DHCP on the rack controller?
- Can your verify that when the node boots it’s first boot device is a PXE capable network card and that there’s no operating system on the primary hard drive
… I’m guessing this isn’t an x86 chipset?