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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