PXE Boot Server with a webgui interface built-in.

You want to be able to boot unRAID itself over PXE?  Is that correct?

I think he means having unRAID act as a PXE Boot Server either natively or as some sort of plugin with a webGUI interface to manage it. This could probably be done with docker too although I haven't seen one yet. The idea was most likely from this thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31297.0.

 

I've done this myself as outlined in that thread as I do a number of Windows installations and run Memtest86+ and on quite a few machines. I haven't used it since running the unRAID 6 beta's as I want to have a stock configuration during the beta cycle.

To allow unraid to server as a PXE boot server, so that essentially any machine with PXE boot (about 99% of machines today) can boot into almost any distro of linux or windows. basically allowing diskless machines to run any os when connected to local network

I use dnsmasq to handle pxeboot (as a plugin under unRAID V5 and running in an ArchVM on V6 - actually, in V6 I've abandoned use of the dnsmasq tftp server, and installed the standard slackware tftp server).

 

Configuration of dnsmasq not very user-friendly - would it be possible to create a webgui for configuration?

might as well consider native web server support for iPXE

This is becoming a more and more interesting request.  Thank you for the info.  Will review this with the team.

Been doing some reading and learning on the FOG project (Technically a cloning solution).  This could be developed into a docker solution and it would be a PXE server for many PXE served systems.

 

http://www.fogproject.org/

Been doing some reading and learning on the FOG project (Technically a cloning solution).  This could be developed into a docker solution and it would be a PXE server for many PXE served systems.

 

http://www.fogproject.org/

 

That looks promising, would be willing to test out if someone dockerizes it... Biggest thing is having a web interface to configure menus/settings for network boot for multiple cross-platform images...