hi all,

i have captured my source windows 10 VM on my citrix xen server

made a new destination windows 10 VM on my ESXi server and i have deployed the captured image, (only change i made was i made the disk IDE instead of SCSI as xen its an IDE drive)

the capture/deploy process worked perfectly

now everytime the destination vm starts up i get a blue screen, i imagine the problem is the mbr boot partition (sda1)

can i create a new mbr, will this solve the problem?

PS, i did a sysprep aswell on the source

thanks,
rob

@Sebastian-Roth this is exactly what i mean thanks, i will test it out and get back to you!!!

it works!!!

when i do a “lsmod | grep bochs_drm” i see nothing

@Sebastian-Roth thanks, do you think i could add it in the parameters ie -

kernel http://172.17.1.1/listing/centos7_1804/iso/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz ks=http://172.17.1.1/listing/centos7_1804/ks2.cfg
initrd http://172.17.1.1/listing/centos7_1804/iso/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
modprobe.blacklist=bochs_drm
boot || goto MENU

hi all,

i have noticed when i go to

fog configuration > ipxe new menu entry

i have noticed “boot options”

can i add this as a boot option

modprobe.blacklist=nouveau

thanks,
rob

changed it in

/opt/fog/.fogsettings

and on the web gui

fog configuration > fog settings > tftp server

do i need to re run something for it to take affect?

hi all,

i changed my fog servers ip address from “10.100.1.2” to “172.17.1.1”

i get this error about http

do you think i should just re-install fog and give it the right ip in the first place?

thanks,
rob

OK so I would need to do a clean shutdown first?

hi all,

im trying to clone a windows 10 hard drive in a machine but when i do a full registeration of the host, once registered i go to the hosts tab on the web gui , click on capture and restart the host but it doesnt capture the image, instead it goes straight to the iPXE menu

but when i sysprep the machine first and then click on capture and restart the machine fog then starts to capturing process

so it looks like capturing an image only works when you sysprep the machine before ie sysprep /oobe /generalize and doesnt work if you dont do a sysprep

thanks,
rob

hi all,

how do i get my host to shutdown and not restart after a full host registration

many thanks,
rob

Hi all,

When i press f12 for network boot, I get my fog server come up with all the different menus, ie 2 I have added manually for centos kickstart and one for gparted live

I have seen there’s a default one for deploying your images called “fog.deployimage” , I would just like to know can I put in another custom menu for capturing images aswell

It would be good to know as atm i have to quickly register my host with the fog server and from there under hosts I click on that host and click the capture button

Many thanks,
rob

lovely stuff, job done -

kernel http://fog/listing/centos7_1804/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz ks=http://fog/listing/centos7_1804/ks.cfg
initrd http://fog/listing/centos7_1804/images/pxeboot/initrd.img
boot || goto MENU

kernel http://fog/listing/centos7_1804/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
initrd http://fog/listing/centos7_1804/images/pxeboot/initrd.img ks http://fog/listing/centos7_1804/ks.cfg
boot || goto MENU

But i dont understand if i need these added extras-
Chain
imgargs vmlinuz
initrd=initrd.img

Am I putting my kickstart file in the right place?

so i was right in the first place

instead of editing the file - “/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default” i add a new custom menu on the fog web gui?

can i then enter this under “paramenters”

LABEL centos7_1804
menu label centos7_1804

Load the correct kernel

kernel http://fog/listing/centos7_1804/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz

Boot options

append initrd=http://fog/listing/centos7_1804/images/pxeboot/initrd.img ks=http://fog/listing/centos7_1804/ks.cfg

think i have solved it -

cat /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

DEFAULT vesamenu.c32
LABEL fog
MENU DEFAULT
kernel ipxe.krn dhcp && chain

LABEL centos7_1804
menu label centos7_1804
# Load the correct kernel
kernel centos7_1804/images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
# Boot options
append initrd=centos7_1804/images/pxeboot/initrd.img ks=

PROMPT 0
TIMEOUT 01

---

ls /tftpboot/centos7_1804/images/pxeboot/

initrd.img vmlinuz

---

so i edited the file “default” and i added a new boot option for my centos7 kickstart file

once i edited the default file i added the centos 7 1804 folder to the “/tftpboot/” which holds the pxeboot files

i also made my fog server a http directory listing server so it can read the kickstart script

what do you guys think

i will test tomorrow and see if it works

hi all,

i think i know how to create a new menu in FOG for my linux kickstart file

in FOG management web under “FOG configuration > iPXE new menu entry”

https://i.postimg.cc/Vvzv9Jms/ipxe-menu.png

obviously i will copy “centos7_1804” on my fog server

where do you think i should add it, under

/root/centos7_1804 OR

/var/www/html/fog/centos7_1804

after that i will edit my parameters so it points to the right path

what do you guys think?

cheers,

rob

How do I setup my fog server so that it deploys the kickstart file to a host via PXEboot

I’ve installed it and it looks really good

I have made 3 image templates and registered a host to the server

Now i know when making a new Windows i need to run a OOBE generalise sysprep before I capture the image using fog

What about if I want to capture a linux image, or can I use my kickstart file I made?

Many thanks,
Rob

so do i need to install the fog client on the computer or can i just select the host from the fog server and tick connect to domain?

nice adding it to the domain would be nice, i have seen that setting on the fog server for the host

hi all,

before i capture my sysprep windows 10 image, shall i install the fog client, are there any benefits of installing it?

the machines im going to be deploying the image to are going to be domain machines if that helps

many thanks,

rob