"If you found this video or been watching my channel for a while, then you are probably someone who has a totally unnecessary home lab." is the best intro I've seen and really shows that the he knows his audience.
This video has saved my life! I've been using Serva for a few years, but it's an absolute pain to setup for non-windows ISOs. This is a million times better!
Thanks for the video pal, you just saved me a trip to the office. Subbed For those interested - if your dhcp is windows server then the scope options you need to enable are 066 Boot Server Host Name(can be an IP) and 067 Bootfile Name. Works like a charm 👌
thank you this is exactly what i was looking for. i made a couple changes like i had to use the _aa64 bootloader for it to work within proxmox. I also had an external nas with all my isos on it the same ones that I use for my proxmox server and I smb mounted that to the iso folder so they were always in sync the fact that you are using unifi as i am was helpful as well... cheers
Plenty of people say "pixie". "You-fee" less so but it's not unheard of, just Google it. Lots of things are abbreviated, so what not this hey. Either way, if you like it or not, thanks for watching and commenting.
Sorry, I'm new to this, is this "pxe boot" just for install media, or is it for whole established (vm) systems to boot to a bare metal machine from a vm server?
Hey. Typically you use it for install media to install an OS on a lot of machines. Although it is possible to boot into an OS over PXE, particularly small Linux distributions and then it all just runs from RAM. This could be useful for use-use thin clients where the data isn't important, or you could save the important stuff to network drives. Personally, I've only used PXE for installing things such as Linux, Windows or TrueNAS.
i have an odd issue with following this everytime i pxeboot to this i get access denied.. is that a issue on my mikrotik router or something i setup incorrectly?
Really video was well done. Have few queries to get clarify, 1. iVentoy tool comes up with internal DHCP server.? 2. Why we need a SMB install/configure in the end.? Do you mind to clarify on the above points!
Hi! What is your question with the first point? You should be able to choose between 3 options for dhcp in the settings. The second one...this is just so that you can easily copy new iso images to your iVentoy PXE Server. But you don't have to use Samba. You can use SSH to copy files. Or even better you could mount the "iso" folder to a remote machine such as a NAS.
In theory network would be slower because USB 3.0 can be up to 5Gbps, where you have a 1Gbps network. But it does also depend on the speed of the USB pen drive you use, as most of them don't fully utilise the USB bandwidth. In summary, I would expect a thumb drive to be a bit faster. If you used an external SSD or NVMe drive then I would expect it to be quite a bit faster. So if speed is your requirement then probably stay with using Ventoy on a USB drive instead.
Hi, its my first time doing this. I wanna apply this PXE server in order to install OS on user´s notebooks. this free version allows you to deploy 20 images at the same time or after doing it 20 times you must pay? Didnt get that point. I´ve already suscribed Thanks!
Hi. Thanks for the comment and sub! I'm not 100%, but have a look at my reply to mobile Mike's comment. This is what I "think" happens but tricky to prove.
ok none of this helped at all, i have unraid server running iVentoy and its just flat out not working. how do i get this to start working normally so i can just turn on a pc that has no OS and only an ethernet connection and get it to find the iventoy pxe automatically ???
Hi the Linux installations all are working but iam having issue with windows 10 and windows 11 installation when working with windows in 10 having screen issue ihave tried all the resolutions ansd also in windows11 having driver missing issue could you help mw with this issue
Hmm.. when you say tried all resolutions, you've tried higher ones too? I had an install of something recently which required 1080. It feels like a bug that the dev should be able to fix. This resolution thing seems to be a problem with Ventoy as well as iVentoy sometimes. I will try an install of W11 when I get time and see what I get.
Thanks! The documentation doesn't make it clear and I wondered the same thing. But I do think it means simulataneous rather than only 20 ever before buting a licence. When you PXE boot a device it shows in the "Device List" in iVentoy and stays there even after you have finished. However, when you stop the iVentoy service in the UI, it clears out that list. So I think the answer is: you can do up to 20, at which point you have to stop and start the service and then you can do another 20.
Sorry about late reply to your previous comment! I'm not sure about Secure Boot tbh, could be tricky I reckon. I will try and give a Windows install a go when I can and see what I get. The developer does have one page about a potential Windows issues, perhaps this is your issue? www.iventoy.com/en/doc_win_driver.html
Info might be good but he goes waaaaaay to fast to follow, as if you already know how to do this, which is the purpose of the video. Suggestion would be to slow down and explain more in detail.
