@nixCraft This is how we usually install windows in case the IPMI is too shitty to use the ISO (as it keeps disconnecting or causing read errors while the setup is trying to copy stuff from it to disk).

All you need for that to work is install windows in a VM but turn the VM off at first reboot and then use that raw disk image form qemu as source and have it written to disk through a minimalistic linux live iso (or pxe boot).

@nixCraft interesting

this was a good read

i like this kind of nerdy tinkering article