Thanks for the reply, I guess it was just wishful thinking that there would be a place to configure it.

I was playing with the same idea of running FOG on a VM and allocate all physical resources to it. It seems like there’s some network slow down in the emulation layer and I couldn’t get more that 250MB/min. Where as on the same physical server if I did a raw Ubuntu 11.10/FOG0.32 install I could get steady 1.6GB/min speeds. I think you’ll find you’ll be much better off on a dedicated server even if it’s not a super beefy machine. I also messed around with Bonding mulitple NICs and got nothing but trouble unless you just want it as a hot backup. There are a lot more errors when trying to load balance and ended up not being worth the trouble.

[quote=“Amir, post: 785, member: 335”]There are several places that you can check in order to make sure that your new hosts are communicating with the right FOG server IP address specified on /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default[/quote]
I forgot all about the ip addresses passed in the append lines of the default config file! That did it!
I’m going to add this to the wiki page for [URL=‘http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Change_FOG_Server_IP_Address’]changing the IP address of a FOG server[/URL].

I had the same exact issue before with Optiplex 790 Series. In order to resolve this issue you need to rebuild your FOG kernel with the latest KITCHENSINK and import your drivers.

[url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Building_a_Custom_Kernel[/url]

Hope it helped.

If your systems are outdated and do not support PXE boot on BIOS you can still boot them via PXE by using RBFG bootdisk. RBFG stands for Remote Boot Floppy Generator which creates the capability for those clients that natively do not support boot via PXE.
In order to create this bootdisk, either you need to have a Windows 2000 Server Disk or if you do not have one then follow the instruction on this site: [url]http://registration.argontechnology.com/rbfg/index.shtml[/url]

Hope it helps you.

Depends on your distro, in ubuntu try “nano /etc/dhcp3/dhcpd.conf” and look for “option routers”.

Thank you for coming back to explain how you fixed your issue. It adds value to the forums and the FOG community.

yeah thanks i got pxe boot/registering working, didnt have time to upload/download today will test next week

FOG runs on top of Ubuntu Server (or centos)

so yes you will need to install Ubuntu as a VM

Have you tried using kernel arguments like nomodeset?

That sounds fine. Let me know if any code needs to change in FOGController or FOGManagerController

You should have a look at the latest code i have submitted. I have made a lot of changes to how Tasks are generated.

$Host->startTask was written by microleaks, but never put into prodution. The old production code was in ‘management/includes/tasks.confirm.include.php’’

Task creation is now handled in Host.class.php. There are 3 functions for instant deployment, single run scheduled deployment and cron style deployment:

[url]https://freeghost.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freeghost/trunk/packages/web/lib/fog/Host.class.php[/url]
[code]$Host->createImagePackage($taskTypeID, $taskName = ‘’, $shutdown = false, $debug = false, $deploySnapins = true, $isGroupTask = false)
$Host->createSingleRunScheduledPackage($taskTypeID, $taskName = ‘’, $scheduledDeployTime, $enableShutdown = false, $enableSnapins = false, $isGroupTask = false, $arg2 = null)
$Host->createCronScheduledPackage($taskTypeID, $taskName = ‘’, $minute = 1, $hour = 23, $dayOfMonth = ‘', $month = '’, $dayOfWeek = ‘*’, $enableShutdown = false, $enableSnapins = true, $isGroupTask = false, $arg2 = null)[code][/code]

There has been a new class to handle “TaskTypes” (aka download, upload, multicast, wipe, av, etc) and this class reads it’s information from the ‘TaskTypes’ table. You are able to specify custom kernel and kernel arguments per TaskType.

GUI code for Task creation is in HostManagementPage.class.php & GroupManagementPage.class.php
(functions deploy() & deploy_post() handle the calls to the Host functions.

[url]https://freeghost.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freeghost/trunk/packages/web/lib/pages/HostManagementPage.class.php[/url]
[url]https://freeghost.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/freeghost/trunk/packages/web/lib/pages/GroupManagementPage.class.php[/url]