Boot windows from network?

[Dan Egli]

On 10/28/2020 9:17 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> I've heard of installing Windows by PXE-booting a WinPE image that runs
> the installer.  But I've never heard of running Windows itself through a
> PXE boot, such as is common with diskless Linux setups.
>
> If I understand you correctly, you want to run your Windows workstations
> similar to what Red Hat used to call "stateless."  Everything boots off
> the same read-only image, with per-workstation temporary files stored
> somewhere else?  User's home directories via Samba perhaps?  If so, I'm
> not really sure Windows is designed to work like that.
>
> The closest hack I can think of is to PXE-boot Linux, and then use kvm
> to boot Windows from a shared copy-on-write disk image. Sounds slow though.
>

Basically something like that. It doesn't necessarily have to be RO, but
the main point was that if I had to do things like applying system
updates or installing new software, I did it ONCE and everyone had the
changes. I've asked around and it's beginning to sound like that isn't
possible. Which REALLY sucks, but oh well.

-- 
Dan Egli
On my Test server

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