I work in a school and my main problem is keeping the various systems up to date. The Windows updates apply themselves and the antivirus looks after itself but the other apps [and there are a lot of them] need manual updates. I normally create a new workstation image and once a term, pump out a new machine image using RIS. This is a complete system rebuiild each time.
I have been using Virtual box and wondered whether anyone has found a minimal Linux boot image that can load Virtualbox to download and boot automatically off the network an XP image. I know this is a little bit like PXE booting Xp and it might be really slow [haven't tried it]. I can boot Linux ISO across the network at a rapid rate of knots and wondered whether XP will also work this way.
I am interested in any feedback. What minimal Linux packages can run VirtualBox?