Windows 10 deployment via WDS in VM

[ONeill]

Hello all,

I have the following problem:

 

I have WDS running Windows Server 2012 (not R2) which is used to deploy Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 without problems.

Now I want to deploy Windows 10, but the problem is - when I add Windows 10 boot.wim to my WDS and try to boot a virtual machine (hyper-v), windows logo appears and nothing else.

 

However, when I try to boot using a physical hardware (a laptop), boot process works just fine, everything is as expected.

 

For more information about my problem, I found this post which is the same situation I have:

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ae061fe1-bbff-441e-9cec-8a2b7cc3c84e/wds-windows-10-boot-and-capture-images-not-starting-in-hyperv-2012-r2?forum=win10itprosetup

 

(suggested answer to create Gen2 VM doesn't work for me).

 

Did you run into this problem and do you have/know a workaround ?

 

Thank

Best regards

[ONeill]

Further testing shows that the same setup works on "Oracle VM Virtualbox" but still not on Hyper-V VMs.

[ONeill]

Problem solved.

Due to my unique environment, I had a different value under DHCP 67 option Bootfile name. By 'different' I mean some custom bootfile name we use in our environment.

Once I changed it to "\boot\x64\wdsnbp.com" it worked in Hyper-V too.

[anyweb]

thanks for updating the post with the solution.