booting a vm image from a pc over the network

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Is it possible, using either vmware server or virtual server 2005 r2, to boot from a pc over the network a vm image?

So if i have a pc, without anything except a network card and it boot from PXE and loads the first available XP image from the server?

Is this possbile?

Thanks

 

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Please could you clear what you trying to do.

What i think you asking is, is it possible to run VM machine with images in a network enviroment then allow a client to use images from that server and install a OS?

If so yes - assuming the software side of things is ok - RIS,DNS,DHCP, Permissions

 

I think that this is the sort of thing that you are looking for.

It's a full solution mind you.

 

Thanks guys, zimbo what i mean is actually run the vm on the client pc as if i was running it locally, so no install

Like thin clients and a citrix box, they log in like rdp via network boot, but i want the clients to run an xp vm, or have several running and they use the 1st available one.