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Comparison of Iventoy and IPXE Manager. - crasadure - 05-30-2026
https://www.tnctr.com/topic/1262906-ipxe-manager-network-http-boot/
https://github.com/abdullah-erturk/iPXE-Manager
Download Link : https://github.com/abdullah-erturk/iPXE-Manager/archive/refs/heads/main.zip
RE: Comparison of Iventoy and IPXE Manager. - mephistooo2 - 06-08-2026
A demo has been added.
Try accessing the control panel through your browser instead of downloading it to your computer — password: admin · No actual files are uploaded — it's a simulation.
erturk-dev.netlify.app/ipxe_demo.html
RE: Comparison of Iventoy and IPXE Manager. - jpzsj - 06-20-2026
测试了一下，完全没有iventoy方便，iventoy可以装在nas里面，而iPXE-Manager需要一台windows电脑作为服务器
RE: Comparison of Iventoy and IPXE Manager. - mephistooo2 - 06-22-2026
(06-20-2026, 09:16 AM)jpzsj Wrote: 测试了一下，完全没有iventoy方便，iventoy可以装在nas里面，而iPXE-Manager需要一台windows电脑作为服务器
Comparing iPXE Manager to iVentoy is a bit like comparing apples to oranges — they target different goals.
iVentoy boots ISOs as-is. It's easy to use, but for Windows, it only gets you to the WinPE environment. It cannot perform a real network installation.
iPXE Manager runs Windows Setup over WebDAV as a genuine network installation — completed entirely over the network, without USB or DVD. iVentoy cannot do this.
On the Linux side, both tools offer similar distro support. On the Windows side, nothing else in the free/open category does what iPXE Manager does.
Being "Windows only" is not a limitation — the target audience is system administrators working in Windows environments. If you need a PXE server running on Linux, you would naturally look at different tools for that.
v2 was also released.
RE: Comparison of Iventoy and IPXE Manager. - longpanda - 06-23-2026
(06-22-2026, 10:04 AM)mephistooo2 Wrote:(06-20-2026, 09:16 AM)jpzsj Wrote: 测试了一下，完全没有iventoy方便，iventoy可以装在nas里面，而iPXE-Manager需要一台windows电脑作为服务器
Comparing iPXE Manager to iVentoy is a bit like comparing apples to oranges — they target different goals.
iVentoy boots ISOs as-is. It's easy to use, but for Windows, it only gets you to the WinPE environment. It cannot perform a real network installation.
iPXE Manager runs Windows Setup over WebDAV as a genuine network installation — completed entirely over the network, without USB or DVD. iVentoy cannot do this.
On the Linux side, both tools offer similar distro support. On the Windows side, nothing else in the free/open category does what iPXE Manager does.
Being "Windows only" is not a limitation — the target audience is system administrators working in Windows environments. If you need a PXE server running on Linux, you would naturally look at different tools for that.
v2 was also released.
Just a correction:
For Windows, iVentoy will mount the remote ISO file as a local Y: driver through httpdisk, and take user's unattend XML script (if provided) to do a fully auto unattened network installation.
RE: Comparison of Iventoy and IPXE Manager. - mephistooo2 - 06-23-2026
(06-23-2026, 04:18 AM)longpanda Wrote:(06-22-2026, 10:04 AM)mephistooo2 Wrote:(06-20-2026, 09:16 AM)jpzsj Wrote: 测试了一下，完全没有iventoy方便，iventoy可以装在nas里面，而iPXE-Manager需要一台windows电脑作为服务器
Comparing iPXE Manager to iVentoy is a bit like comparing apples to oranges — they target different goals.
iVentoy boots ISOs as-is. It's easy to use, but for Windows, it only gets you to the WinPE environment. It cannot perform a real network installation.
iPXE Manager runs Windows Setup over WebDAV as a genuine network installation — completed entirely over the network, without USB or DVD. iVentoy cannot do this.
On the Linux side, both tools offer similar distro support. On the Windows side, nothing else in the free/open category does what iPXE Manager does.
Being "Windows only" is not a limitation — the target audience is system administrators working in Windows environments. If you need a PXE server running on Linux, you would naturally look at different tools for that.
v2 was also released.
Just a correction:
For Windows, iVentoy will mount the remote ISO file as a local Y: driver through httpdisk, and take user's unattend XML script (if provided) to do a fully auto unattened network installation.
A friendly suggestion.
You can use the same method in iVentoy that IPXE Manager uses to mount Windows ISOs and modified WinPE ISOs to virtual drives.
I think this method is very robust.
RE: Comparison of Iventoy and IPXE Manager. - crasadure - 06-25-2026
iPXE Manager v2.1
v2.1 Changelog
This update was primarily introduced to resolve mounting issues encountered with modified WinPE ISOs (such as Sergei Strelec). Since these ISOs use a non-standard volume layout, the previous Get-DiskImage-based approach was not always reliable.
• If the existing
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mnt_temp• The ISO mounting method has been completely migrated from the Get-DiskImage / Add-PartitionAccessPath approach to a DiskPart-based method. Before and after mounting, volume lists obtained via
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diskpart list volumeCode:
diskpart assign mount=• The mount wait time has been increased from 1000 ms to 2000 ms, providing additional time for the mounting process to complete on slower systems.
• The additional PowerShell sweep code in the
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_unmount_all_isos()Code:
_unmount_iso()RE: Comparison of Iventoy and IPXE Manager. - crasadure - 06-28-2026
v2.2 Changes:
• Added support for direct PXE boot (HTTP Boot) over a network to Linux-based system recovery, disk cloning, and maintenance tools (ISO) such as Rescuezilla, Redo Rescue, SystemRescue, and Parted Magic.