@Wayne-Workman you win lol, I’ll follow documentation and just do CLI because you are right, every time I’ve installed FOG I went straight to a terminal

Sorry, thoughts are all over the place. Need to get some sleep, I will work on it some more tonight hopefully.

We have multiple VLANs too… so it will work on our main VLAN for now until I can figure out the VLAN thing. We use Cisco switches… That is for future though, I just want to get it up and going on our main VLAN for now. Proof of concept type of deal I guess. I believe everyone will love it when it comes time to build/rebuild a PC.

@need2 I do agree with you though, Hyper-V 2012R2 has come a long way. For any new environment, if it were up to me, would be Hyper-V. We went with VMware in about 2009 a year after I started at my job. Recently upgraded the hosts to 5.5, pretty stable.

I will just experiment and see what works the best, I’ll try virtualized in a type 2 hypervisor since I started to set it up last night. Got our standard win7 image on the Dell PC, will finish installing Virtualbox and creating the FOG VM.

If performance really sucks, I’ll install on bare metal. I will also look at CentOS as well, it will have to be GUI though. Not only for myself, but for my coworkers as well. No one has much experience with Linux.

I work at a VMware shop with a 3 host cluster with shared storage, I’m not allowed to use the SAN for image storage. Which is why I grabbed a Dell Optiplex PC off of the shelf and planned to use that. I don’t even think my boss would allow me to setup Hyper-V in our environment.

We do not plan to image many PC’s at once, maybe 2-3 at most. Speed isn’t much of a concern either, I just have a 500GB 7200rpm SATA drive in the Dell currently. I just need to get this setup and running so we can have a standard method of imaging PCs/POS terminals.

I am definitely more comfortable with Windows which is why I was tossing around the idea of just installing Win7 Pro x64, installing Virtualbox, and then create the VM for FOG on that to take snapshots, easier to backup the vmkd file containing images and the FOG install.

Didn’t get a chance to play with this anymore yet, was swamped with a project last night. Hopefully over the weekend I can give it a try. What does everyone think about running FOG on type 2 hypervisor? Or should I just install it on bare metal?

I like the thought of being able to take snapshots as I go along so if I mess anything up I can restore a snapshot. The ‘host’ will be a Dell Optiplex 745 with 4GB of RAM. I will probably use Virtualbox and create VMDK so if in the future my boss wants to put it on an ESXi host it should be relatively painless.

@Wayne-Workman I did that this morning and it did work if I remember correctly, I’ll test again tonight. Do you know how to automate the tftpd service restart at boot up? I think I read that solution somewhere.

I will probably do another install in a virtualbox VM and see what happens. Would be nice to snapshot along the way, hopefully performance doesn’t tank with a type 2 hypervisor.

I will post back with results when I get a chance to work on it. Thanks guys

Just curious what everyone recommends as far as Ubuntu version for FOG 1.2.0. I’m setting up a FOG server at work, last week I tried setting up 14.04 and everything was working fine. I rebooted the FOG server and after that, I got tftp timeouts on my test client. Last night, I rebuilt it with 12.04 and same thing… worked fine and after server reboot tftp timeouts. It was also wanting to update the database schema when going to the address in a web browser even after I did initially during setup.

I’m going to install Win7 x64 on the PC tonight, install Virtualbox and build it again as a VM. Just want to know what everyone recommends for Ubuntu version, I will be installing the desktop version as my linux skills are lacking.

I know this is old as the hills, but check out a awesome tool called sardu. Sardu.it - I recently came across it on spiceworks, awesome little utility. I have Hiren’s Boot CD and a Win7x64 Pro iso on a 16gb flash drive, I can boot into either one.