Kickstart your homelab with netboot.xyz
I use a home lab for daily work and for testing purposes, I need to hop between Linux distros often. I’ve replaced my homegrown PXE boot environment with netboot.xyz. I built it for a few operating systems and all was good. I ran into netboot.xyz, and it was quickly pretty clear, this is what you want in a homelab when you have to hop between operating systems using virtual machines. Reducing the need for building bootable thumb drives or shuffling ISOs around is great. It has batteries included with boot menu configs, and it works out of the box. It allows also a lot of customization if needed. As a reminder to my future self and for others here is my config to get it working quickly.
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