Posted on 08-23-2012 11:56 AM
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 ;)
Posted on 08-23-2012 12:38 PM
They introduced this in the Fusion Technology Preview following WWDC 2012. I've got a couple of posts on it:
Posted on 08-24-2012 10:08 AM
Thanks for the links to your site ;)
Posted on 08-24-2012 11:35 AM
Just requested my upgrades from v4. That's gonna be huge for me. Thanks for the links and the tip.