iVentoy
Watching many projects pop up on my feed such as Netboot.xyz and iVentoy in the last few months. Netboot.xyz is a great tool to replace USB flash drives to boot computers. The only downside is that Netboot.xyz is a bit more complicated on the setup and configuring of PXE and DHCP. Not a lot of Linux Distros and more importantly Windows11 can not boot properly. Netboot only supports a handful of Distrobutions and others have to be created manually. iVentoy seems more seemless and universal.
The new contender is iVentoy. I have used the non PXE Ventoy in the past. Where you prep a usb flash drive with Ventoy, you can boot multiple different ISO. iVentoy is the PXE version of Ventoy. It was easy to install and got stuck on a step. The problem was the video tutorial was showing the installation on a regular computer setup without a VM. Installed iVentoy as a LXC container on Proxmox. This is the link I followed and made a few changes to make this work on Proxmox. YouTube
After installing Ubuntu 24.02 Server Container on Proxmox. I made sure that Unprivileged was unchecked and Nesting was enabled. After the LXC container launched, I had to make sure SSH can be accessed.
wget https://github.com/ventoy/PXE/releases/download/v1.0.20/iventoy-1.0.20-linux-free.tar.gz(This is to download the latest iVentoy. Currently it is version v1.0.20)sudo tar -xzf iventoy-1.0.20-linux-free.tar.gz(Extract the file that was downloaded)cd iventoy-1.0.20(Change directory to the folder that was just extracted)sudo ./iventoy.sh start(Within the iVentoy folder, this command launches the app)- sudo nano /
etc/ssh/sshd_config(This loads up the config file to be able to edit.)- then remove the comment# and enable YES on root access
Then I was able to access the web version via http://x.x.x.x:26000 and enable the service. Using Filezilla I was able to transfer the ISO to the iVentoy LXC Container. Then the final confirmation was able to see the laptop boot to PXE. On the laptop make sure to set the laptop to disable secure boot.
