Anton said: for now -- partially. StarWind can of course be used together with hardware iSCSI initiators to provide boot from iSCSI volumes (it's out of our business what data you do keep on our virtualization software). But StarPort for now cannot be used to boot remotely w/o hard disk. Actual Wind...

I just realized that the OP was probably referring to Windows 2003 iSCSI boot and not XP. Following the how-to from the etherboot.org website for booting from a SAN for Windows 2003 should work no problem. Just replace the linux iSCSI target with StarWind. Guess I'm SOL for XP boot from iSCSI.

Thank you very much! Please keep us updated about your progress. We really appreciate your efforts! Anton, Off topic, does Starport support Windows "suspend"? **** doesn't allow the system to suspend, says AoE dll won't allow it to suspend. I'm hoping Starport will allow my clients to sus...

I managed to use **** to boot from native linux via AoE using gPXE. However, I require a Windows native target, so I tried setting up Starport/Starwind. I managed to get gPXE to boot off my image but it crashed right away. I installed a fresh XP with network drivers and Starport. Then dd'ed the part...

So after a bit of a search I came across etherboot / gPXE. This opensource project allows you to create an iSCSI boot image. (www.etherboot.org) It was a bit fiddly building a CD (I had to setup a Linux build environment), but now I have a bootable CD, that starts a machine spins up the network, an...