Do away with Boot USBs! - PXE boot with IVENTOY
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- Recently @TechnoTim did a great video on network.xyz and I though to myself is this possible with Ventoy.
With Iventoy, you can easily boot any ISO image from the network, without the need for a Boot USB. This makes it easy to boot your computer from an ISO image, without needing to copy the ISO to a USB drive.
This is a great way to create automated systems or boot your computer from remote locations. You can also use Iventoy to create bootable backup discs or install software from ISO images.
Whether you're a system administrator or a software developer, Iventoy is a indispensable tool for creating and using ISO images. In this video, I'll show you how to use Iventoy
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Written Guide
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00:00 - Intro
01:26 - About Iventoy
02:06 - Setting Up VM
06:56 - Configuration
14:25 - Accessing Iventoy & Common Issues
21:03 - Summary
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The big green 'play' button was the thing that completely stumped me. I simply didn't notice it. I am conditioned to ignore such things on a webpage as advertisement. Thanks and greetings from India.
Haha I did the same first time hence why I covered it off. Was banging me head against the desk saying why isn’t this working 😂
@@ExpressITTechTips wonderful video, thank you. One question tho, that green play button, will that auto start if the VM makes a reboot?
Thanks in advance for the answer 👍
@@patrickr3647 I dont believe it would something ill have to try at the weekend
@@ExpressITTechTips im in the process of testing. Running the "sudo ./iventoy.sh -R start" didnt autostart the process for me on reboots, so im in the process of creating a crontab job, but when i start the process manually after a reboot the green button was actually on
Just the thing I was looking for
Very nice. Thank you.
Bonjour
bien belle vidéo pleins d'infos .. merci !!
Perfect ! Youve made my day with this video ! Really like how you explain the video !
Thank you for taking the time to watch it 👍
@@ExpressITTechTips Is there a way to make iVentoy to start automatically after Ubuntu server restart ?
Yep you should be able to follow this github.com/ventoy/PXE/issues/4
Thanks. I was really spinning my wheels on the name of the boot file to use. I thought it surely must have needed to be one of the three EFI files listed in the UI and couldn't figure out why I couldn't even TFTP GET any of them from the server. For hours I went down a rabbit hole of service files, source code, directory permissions, forums, etc.. I don't know where you found the "iventoy_loader_16000" file name but that's all that was needed to PXE boot. Thanks again.
No problem glad you up and running
I came across Tim's video and 1 minute in I thought "surely it's easier with iVentoy. 😆
Depends on what your trying to achieve I guess. I prefer Iventoy for a lot of things but for some of the Linux based solutions there’s deffo some perks elsewhere
I was following the guide on the iventoy 3rd party dhcp server page and setting the options in the unifi UI and wondering why they didn't work - apparently you just use the network boot option and it silently fails if you set them manually! Good to know.
i think the point about feedback you said was supposed to be on a bigger font and not bigger window, but then i am just a passing random viewer. good luck.
was there a bit you struggled to see then , i had upped the font in the terminal as well, issue is it makes the window bigger to fit it in too
@@ExpressITTechTipssince you already have a written guide (text based) so i dont think this should be a problem, but yes just by watching the video I could not see the text unless i zoom (on cellphone ). Workaround was to follow text guide in the description for me. So thanks for that ❤
Thank you for sharing your content with us. I digit. No rocks over the fence from this ' user '. Just curious, what distro are you using in your VM ? Im fussy, I like ' details '. Let me know (if you're ' brave enough, ' retain a comfort level ' to share that detail. I know.. we compute among VERY sensitive, delicate personalities on planet earth. ESPECIALLY in ' IT ') Uh, Im too old to entertain diminished egos lol. Thanks
Hi Wes or is this the LLM of some sophisticated AI 🤣. Most of the time I use Ubuntu, however proxmox itself is based on Debian so you could say I’ve used both. I tend to use distros based on these. Things like Linux mint. Zorin, Pop Os etc
Thanks for the reply. Nah, I'm a biological human here to help. Thanks fellow tech-know, WE appreciate your content. May your channel flourish and thrive.
Great tutorial but you could still increase the font size a bunch more ;-)
Will make sure I do on my next tutorial
great, it works fine, thnk you! but how do i setup an autostart? every time i reboot iventoy i have to execute the start script and hit the play button in the web interface manually... :/
github.com/ventoy/PXE/issues/4 There is some information here on that issue
I keep seeing videos with this message, "no more usb sticks" and that sounds very very interesting but every single one has got either a full blown active directory with a windows dhcp server to setup the pxe or a very expensive router/firewall solution to do the same. I keep trying to work it out without slpashing out a grand on licences for propriatary software and hardware but it's just not wanting to work for me. I mean the idea that this makes it easy is kinda true assuming that you have all these other bits in place. Is it possible to get this working on a machine with proxmox and 1 network card? I don't have a fancy router or a bunch of windows servers laying around.....
Yes 100% I have this working in a small Nuc type device self hosted on proxmox. You can have the inventoy run your dhcp for you and it is the pxe server 👍
@@ExpressITTechTips Yes. It looks like it's working. Fixed IPs for the NUC and the iVentoy container. Looks like it works. Its wierd though, not all ISOs are working. When I load the ubuntu ISO the iventoy service just crashes. Will look at it eventually. My windows test on proxmox (same physical machine) actually fails. No HDD like it doesn't have the storage driver? huh? Seems impossible. I must be doing something wrong
If it’s windows 11 there is a known issue with the latest version there’s a few posts on the forums about it forums.ventoy.net/showthread.php?tid=2847. Would be worth setting your device mode to ahci in the bios to see if that solves it. If not people have dropped back a few versions to solve this issue
@@ExpressITTechTips I am on proxmox using a container. Looks like if I try any customised windows iso it crashes. I need to add storage and network drivers to the windows iso. The untouched iso is perfectly fine but as soon as I add a custom one iventoy crashes immidiatly. That intel driver that is mentioned in the thread happens to be the folder I need to add to the iso along with wifi and whatever else in the future. Very strange that adding some ISOs makes the software crash. The clean windows 11 iso doesn't even have the driver for a virtual machine HDD, least in my proxmox it says that it cannot locate a drive.... Makes zero sense cause when I upload the same iso to proxmox everything is perfectly fine. I can boot to the iso, untouched or with added folders, and I can install from the ISOs. Also tried them on a stick with real hardware... no issues at all. Only iventoy works completely differently... Like it doesnt work lol. I am going to pick up a few laptops and a switch tomorrow see if I can get it working when seperated from my regular network.
let us know how you get on
Can you explain installing this on Synology ?
I don’t have a synology anymore I’m afraid however you should be able to do it via docker - github.com/ziggyds/iventoy
I have a problem similar to the one posted on the forum, has anyone had this happen to them and found a solution? I assume in principle that I have a problem with my router, it does not have the ipcion to configure the iventoy boot file in the router's dhcp
What router are you using ?
Hello @@ExpressITTechTips router ZTE , I see that if I put a link I get blocked directly when I publish that's why I didn't put the forum link
Ah right to me it looks like that router doesnt have this option is it something that comes with your ISP? What I would do personally is use another device as your router something like PfSense OpenSense , Sophos XG or even Unifi gear. Here in the UK we have the challenge that our ISP provide us with some totally trash routers. You can virtualize some of them solutions as long as you have at least two nics. So for instance in my home setup my ISPs Router is in Modem mode (Bridged) on that router you have then I have my unifi dreammachine pro. Not only will you gain some more powerful features but you will be able to do lots more with your homelab. Doesnt need to cost the earth either
@@ExpressITTechTips I understand, I very much agree with having the router in bridge mode, my ISP does not allow it, if it allows me to put my own router, I have a pair of mikrotik routers that for that part I will not have a problem and given what I have seen I will have to do it as soon as possible (I hope so).
At the moment, if I remove the dhcp option from the router, does it still have its own dhcp? I don't think I have seen that information in the iventoy documentation.
I was thinking that I could set up a dhcp server in my gns3 lab or on the same server that I have for the labs, without a problem, I'm not sure which is the most practical option to avoid fighting with my ISP router, temporarily
@@geryescalier5242 inventoy does have a dhcp server that’s behind a paywall for more than a certain range so best to use your own
Thanks for wasting my time. Another video about setting up a virtual machine. Come on man.
You have just given me a cracking idea. Virtualised time management software 😜. Joking aside not everyone will want to virtualise you can bare metal this too. Have a good new year anyway 😁