PSD VS Ventoy

The PowerShell Deployment (PSD) extension for MDT is a very good alternative (pun intended as I'm part of the team) and it can be used from anywhere as the SMB restriction has been contained only to the MDT console. The rest is happening via SSL and web services. BTW, regarding the ADK, you can still use the 2004 version that gives you the ability to install 32-bit Windows 10 and 64-bit Windows 10/11. Give it a try https://github.com/FriendsOfMDT/PSD.

For days now I've been attempting to update a newly created PowerShell Deployment share (https://github.com/FriendsOfMDT/PSD) and it just won't update. I gets to the point of "copying .wim to deployment share" and just sits. I've let it sit for literally a day or so thinking maybe it just took a while. I've followed article after article for configuring deployment shares and have went through numerous videos (this also isn't the first I've used MDT so I kinda-sorta know my way around). I'm just not sure where else to turn to try to fix this issue. It'd be great to see an error message somewhere to at least jump start my googling.

Someone else mentioned the Powershell Deployment Kit: https://github.com/FriendsOfMDT/PSD

For the MDT part now, there is a solution based on PowerShell that has shifted entirely to https instead of SMB (I'm part of the Development Team), you may want to take a look here https://github.com/FriendsOfMDT/PSD. Please read the documentation well before jumping the gun ;-).

I used MDT with this.. https://github.com/FriendsOfMDT/PSD

https://github.com/FriendsOfMDT/PSD is probably the closest thing to what you're looking for.

If you're looking for ways to deploy an OS over the internet, you might find this project of interest: FriendsOfMDT/PSD: PowerShell Deployment (github.com)

Ventoy is an open-source tool to create a bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files. Using Ventoy, we can create live USB for multiple distros in one flash disk. This is a revolutionary feature compared to other tools, e.g., Etcher, Rufus, etc, that can only create one live USB at a time. This tool is so important. Don't call yourself a distro hopper if you don't know this tool.

I'm thinking you mean Ventoy? They say they can load vhd and img files, though I've only tried ISO's myself.

https://www.ventoy.net/

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I faced it too. There is a PR on the ventoy GitHub repository that fixes Proxmox boot.

https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/actions/runs/7088423200

> While this works, I find this method a bit tedious to use, at least compared to Ventoy [0].

I find ventoy more tedious, because you can't use it on your hard drive with a sane partitioning scheme.

The only reason is because of how the ventoy detection hardcode the partition boundaries in its checks, and it means Ventoy can only run with the partitions set in a way that may lead to alignment issues like write-amplification: I've detailed that in https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/1342

Ideally I'd have a 10G partition after the EFI (or it could even be the EFI itself) with a few ISOs for rescue purposes + a UEFI entry to avoid having to use a bootable USB, but that's not possible with Ventoy unless I accept Ventoy choices of partition boundaries:

                (pMBR->PartTbl[0].StartSectorId != 2048 ||

I downloaded and made a bootable USB Ventoy (https://www.ventoy.net) with its Windows GUI app in my updated 64-bit W10 Pro PC. However, I couldn't seem to get VirtualBox v7.0.12 to boot it. I read VirtualBox can boot from bootable USB flash sticks so it should work. Am I missing something?

So, yes. The installer will need to install grub to that first partition. You can install ventoy to a usb drive, put a windows iso there and your q4os iso. In case you mess up big time, you can reinstall windows.