IIRC, the way to achieve cloning of an uncooperative Windows host was to modify the clone to sysprep itself on its first boot (rather than prepping to be imaged).
However I haven’t thought too hard about Windows in a long time, been in a blissfully Linux centric world the last couple of years… I don’t think I ever did get Windows cloning outside of experiments before I stopped having reasons to develop it… From: Olivier Lahaye <olivier.laha...@free.fr> Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2018 9:44 AM To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [External] Re: [xcat-user] Brand new systemimager (beta) Why would the si_prepareclient/si_getimage wouldn’t work? Don’t confuse with mksiimage from system installer which built an image form an rpmlist if I’m correct. Note also the now image transfert protocols are systemimager plugins. For now only rsync works, but many more are planed - torrent (Brocken as I need to migrate to something supported) - nfs - Scp - rsync on ssh tunnel - docker (image would be stored in a container on server instead of a directory and downloaded using something similar to docker save) the advantage would be to have image versioning. Unfortunately I’m not expert in creating a docker farm that would serve node subnet without the hassle of setting a full ssl arch) Aside that, I’m also planning to check if I could deploy windows oses (format and lay down image is easy, boot loader is certainly possible, but kickstart stuff may not be easy to script for next reboot (no direct boot of course) There is also the problem of creating the image. Retrieving files is easy, but cleaning registry form cloned host (removing specific stuffs, kickstarting it) may be more complex without impacting cloned os (do kickstart outside this host) Olivier Le 24 oct. 2018 à 14:51, David Johnson <david_john...@brown.edu<mailto:david_john...@brown.edu>> a écrit : Thank you for all these enhancements. I have a question that in the past was answered “no”…. Is there a way to get your golden image from a node that is netbooted? Previously I would have to drive a mile, find a parking spot, find a used drive lying around, push it into an idle node, etc….. The only time I need to do this is when the image I want to build is newer kernel or different architecture from the management node. Thanks again, — ddj Dave Johnson On Oct 24, 2018, at 4:28 AM, Olivier Lahaye <olivier.laha...@free.fr<mailto:olivier.laha...@free.fr>> wrote: Hi, I’m the main active developper for systemimager and saw some questions about it in this mailing list. 1st of all, the new systemimager has nothing to do with the old one regarding the imager which is now generated using dracut and has a GUI based on Plymouth (optional when running) See https://github.com/finley/SystemImager/wiki The quick start guide and screenshot sections are the only one that are up to date. You’ll notice that now, systemimager is able to deploy and run the os without a single reboot! The currently supported OS are RHEL/CentOS 6 and 7, Fedora 27, 28, Upcomming 29 and OpenSUSE 42.3 and newer. It could/should work on deb distros if I had time to do packaging and if dracut can be installed aside initramfstools without conflicts. It is planned and will work on all deb distros that have dracut and Plymouth package. I have no date for availability as it depends on my spare time. (Feel free to join if you have deb packaging and rpm spec knowledge to port it to Debian dir structure (mainly dependency helpers to port from rpm to deb)) Regards, — Olivier Lahaye _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
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