<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">um unless I have really mis understood your question then NO<div><br></div><div>A given image is for a given hypervisor - gPXE or indeed iPXE is not a hypervisor</div><div><br></div><div>Boot the hypervisor then boot the image</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Clive</div><div><br><div><div>On 7 Apr 2011, at 19:32, Swapnesh Chaubal wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Hey Folks,</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">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?</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">Thanks,</span><br style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;">
</font><font style="font-family: verdana,sans-serif;" color="#888888" size="2">Swapnesh </font>
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