I asked this over in the Windows 7 Installation, setup and Deployment forum because I could not find a server forum that I thought fell under this topic though Hopefully in the Hyper-V forum i might get a answer.
I manage the desktop imaging and deployment system at work which currently consists of just WDS on a 2008 R2 64 server that i have administrative rights to, a special sub net on the network set aside for PXE booting which our imaging bench has drops on said
subnet including a physical work PC at my station.
now on my PC i have windows 7 Enterprise x64 with a maxed out 8 GB of ram and Microsoft Virtual PC installed on it. I use VPC to PXE boot and test images.
The problem is I do a larger portion of the work on the imaging process remotely after the work day so as to not affect workers. This means i am using RDP to connect to the WDS server and my work PC. I have the fastest internet service i can buy from my provider; like 50 Mbits/s on wired (i'm using about 35 on a wireless connection) so no lag on anything remotely. However when i launch Virtual PC (i believe i have the 2007 version or what ever runs on 7) the mouse jumps all over the virtual screen makes it impossible to do anything.
So I thought why not add hyper-v as a role to the WDS server and just do all my image testing through that and just remote into one box every night instead of 2.
The problem is I can't figure out how or if it is even possible to have both WDS AND hyper-v on the same server and PXE boot to the WDS from a virtual machine in hyper-v?
Any Help or direction would be AMAZING