Vmware Fusion 5 neat trick.

chriscollins
Valued Contributor

Sorry if you could do this in version 4 as I never tried, but I picked up a license for version 5 professional today and it supports EFI based netbooting in the VM. i was able to netboot a blank VM from our Xserve based netboot server into a Casper netboot image, and image the blank machine. ANd it was very speedy.

Seems like a really cool way to test your images and post configuration scripts, etc, without needing an additional machine. I wouldn't go about building my images in one though ;)

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rtrouton
Release Candidate Programs Tester

chriscollins
Valued Contributor

Thanks for the links to your site ;)

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Just requested my upgrades from v4. That's gonna be huge for me. Thanks for the links and the tip.