@no1bossman
That’s quite the old article, last updated in 2012 (things move fast around here).
Where it talks about IDE, it’s referring to hosts. Hosts being what you would build your image on, and upload from.
Some people really like building their images inside of a virtualized environment… I don’t get it, really. You can’t see how the image is performing on the actual hardware that it’s going on… You can’t ensure the boot time and log-in time are acceptable. You can’t ensure your drivers WILL work when you NEED to image. And de-fragmenting within a virtual host is questionable… And what about the FOG Client Service timing? That’s a big issue with the legacy client…
Maintaining an image per each model of computer you maintain is the absolute best way to ensure a flawless deployment - without bloating your image with a ton of software and drivers that it doesn’t need…
Personally, I’ll never create images on a virtual host if I can help it.
