Hi all,

I have built an updated FOG VM for VirtualBox, available for download. It runs Ubuntu Server 14, a recent FOG trunk version, and a custom setup script to configure your network settings. I hope it’s helpful to those who want to try out FOG and are a little less than LINUX proficient.

If you’re interested in downloading, send me a PM and I will reply with the link.

Thanks again to the developers for their continued efforts on the project, looking forward to seeing what’s coming in future releases!

FOG does a lot more than just imaging, especially with FOG client. I use the Snap-In feature to silently install and update software that gets updated so much it becomes a nuisance (cough FLASH cough).

Since snap-ins are a single executable file, and since FOG web GUI allows for a very simple creation of a new snap-in…

Here are some of the snap-ins I am using at my institution, available for download via SourceForge and direct upload to your FOG server.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/fog-snap-ins/

My packages are used in a Windows 7 and Windows 10 environment.

I hope this is helpful to some or all of you!

As always, a big thank you to Tom Elliott and the rest of the @Senior-Developers for your hard work on this!!

@george1421 THIS WORKED!!!

I renamed the pxelinux.0 file to something else, and created the sym link… Booted right in!

I’ll continue to test with some other machines, if anyone else has any other tidbits to contribute please let me know!

An updated FOG VM is now available, PM me for download link.

Just to be clear, the default user name and password you were using were “fog” and “password”?

Did you capitalize “fog” for the user name?

@george1421 said in VirtualBox FOG Server Download:

@Riggie8 This thread has been long abandon. Its much easier now to spin up a new linux server and then install FOG on it. We can guide you if you need.

Here is the wiki page for installing Centos 7 and then FOG: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=CentOS_7

This thread has certainly not been abandoned… A lot of members have messaged me for the link and I’ve continued to share it!

It’s quite easy to spin up a new server and install a clean FOG, I agree. But some people have trouble or are not comfortable with working in the LINUX CLI. And to that end, I continue to offer the VM for all who are interested.

I’m also working on a new VM with v. 1.4 installed, hopefully I’ll have that in the next week or two.

As always, I’m available to share the bit that I know with all.

@Dee DM me with specifics and I’ll see if I can help.

@george1421 said in VirtualBox FOG Server Download:

@Riggie8 This thread has been long abandon. Its much easier now to spin up a new linux server and then install FOG on it. We can guide you if you need.

Here is the wiki page for installing Centos 7 and then FOG: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=CentOS_7

This thread has certainly not been abandoned… A lot of members have messaged me for the link and I’ve continued to share it!

It’s quite easy to spin up a new server and install a clean FOG, I agree. But some people have trouble or are not comfortable with working in the LINUX CLI. And to that end, I continue to offer the VM for all who are interested.

I’m also working on a new VM with v. 1.4 installed, hopefully I’ll have that in the next week or two.

As always, I’m available to share the bit that I know with all.

Just to be clear, the default user name and password you were using were “fog” and “password”?

Did you capitalize “fog” for the user name?

An updated FOG VM is now available, PM me for download link.

Hi all,

I have built an updated FOG VM for VirtualBox, available for download. It runs Ubuntu Server 14, a recent FOG trunk version, and a custom setup script to configure your network settings. I hope it’s helpful to those who want to try out FOG and are a little less than LINUX proficient.

If you’re interested in downloading, send me a PM and I will reply with the link.

Thanks again to the developers for their continued efforts on the project, looking forward to seeing what’s coming in future releases!

@SaxxAppeal Just figured it out!!

the boot line should read:

dhcp-boot=undionly.kpxe,, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX

The double comma is required because it expects the server name first, then the IP.

Hope that helps someone…

Thanks EVERYONE for your help on this!!

@Sebastian-Roth The symlink works as well… But still asks me to enter the TFTP server. I think its just a matter of knowing exactly where and how to pass the FOG IP to dnsmasq…

@Sebastian-Roth Got it, that’s what I figured. I’ve been trying to figure out where I need to pass the FOG server address, so far no luck.

Requested info:

dhcp-boot=/tftpboot/ipxe.krn

I’ve played with this line over the last week, but it seems to work great this way.

@Sebastian-Roth Tried the 745 and the Lenovo notebook, both are perfect.

Only other thing that has been happening is when I PXE boot, I get the following prompt:

“Please enter TFTP server:”

When I enter it, everything goes through fine and it brings up the FOG menu. I’m sure it’s just an argument that needs to be passed, but not sure where I need to specify this. Any ideas?

@george1421 THIS WORKED!!!

I renamed the pxelinux.0 file to something else, and created the sym link… Booted right in!

I’ll continue to test with some other machines, if anyone else has any other tidbits to contribute please let me know!