sanboot problems.

[mcb30]

(2013-09-26 13:44)sebastian Wrote:  My use case:
Im work at a cyber cafe. To make Everything easier to manage (with updates, only needing to update one computer then all is updated) and prevent customers from tampering with the computers (downloading viruses and such), I want to boot the computers "read-only" from a central server containing a ISO image or some other sort of raw read-only image.

I have built a Windows 7 liveCD image using WinBuilder. The ISO boots locally perfect, in QEMU.

I put the ISO on a LAN accessible web server, and then sanboot the file.

SAN-booting a Windows ISO won't work anyway; there will be no way for Windows to access the ISO image after starting up.

If you can create a .wim image then you could potentially use http://ipxe.org/wimboot.

Another option is to use iSCSI boot (from a disk image rather than an ISO image), and use LVM or similar copy-on-write techniques to provide a clean image on each boot.

Michael