[gPXE] Booting a physical machine using a virtual image and gPXE

Clive Eisen clive at hildebrand.co.uk
Thu Apr 7 14:42:15 EDT 2011


um unless I have really mis understood your question then NO

A given image is for a given hypervisor - gPXE or indeed iPXE is not a hypervisor

Boot the hypervisor then boot the image

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Clive

On 7 Apr 2011, at 19:32, Swapnesh Chaubal wrote:

> Hey Folks,
> 
> I am working on a project in which I would like to boot physical machines using virtual images stored on a server. I understand that we can use gPXE to boot ISO images over the network, and to boot Virtual Machine Hyper-visors like KVM/VirtualBox using gPXE, however, can we use gPXE to boot a physical machine using a .vmdk/.vhd (or any other format) virtual image?
> 
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