Comment by srcreigh
7 hours ago
Last year I released my version of this: https://pxehost.com
Pxehost is much less featureful than Bootimus, no dashboard, and only supports netboot.xyz.
I am curious how Bootimus got udp broadcast to work via Docker on arm macOS. I could not figure that out and it’s why I released pxehost as a cross platform binary.
We need a good ISO to set up new hosts to run firecracker VMs in k3s. That would be a killer homelab tool. Tooling to make custom ISOs. And some Kairos/Talos immutable image update style tooling would be great too.
The dream is to boot via PXE once per host to setup secure k8s nodes, using just Ethernet cord, ISP router, and a windows laptop or an iPhone.
> I am curious how Bootimus got udp broadcast to work via Docker on arm macOS. I could not figure that out and it’s why I released pxehost as a cross platform binary.
Going by the Github, I'd be that it was Claude who figured it out. Which yeah, checks out.
NetBoot.xyz is one of the most sketch projects on the internet, yeah nope nope nope.
What is sketchy about it? I think you know something the rest of us don't.
Even if self hosted?
https://netboot.xyz/docs/selfhosting/