[bcc gpxe-devel]
Sorry, I was under the impression that WinVBlock was considered part of the
broader Etherboot project, for which gpxe-devel seemed to be the mailing
list of record. Sometimes people get annoyed when I fail to CC their
project's mailing list. :/
I was not aware of VHD. I spent
I'm aware that I can set up COW on the server side, but I'd really rather
that writes didn't cross the network at all. It's not uncommon for guests
to want to install additional games which can be as much as 10GB each, and
my machines have 60GB local SSDs which I'd like to utilize.
In fact, longe
Hi Shao and gpxe-devel,
In a post on this page you mentioned that you are planning to add COW
overlay support to WinVBlock:
http://reboot.pro/8168/page__st__300
I have a need for this (in order to netboot multiple machines off a common
base image), and have not been able to find any existing no
Pre-kernel: Perhaps you could do gPXE -> read-only iSCSI SAN -> MBR ->
NTFS Partition -> NTLDR -> specially-crafted NTBOOTDD.SYS (for VHDs) ->
"Master" VHD
Post-kernel: MS iSCSI Initiator and Michael Brown's 'sanbootconf' driver
re-establish the SAN. WinVBlock creates a new "child" VHD on a
pa
Good day, Kenton.
I'm currently working on some serialization/deserialization code in
order to simplify developing support for Microsoft's [acquired] VHD disk
image format. Once implemented, the "differencing" feature of VHD image
files will provide copy-on-write functionality.
For example
