RetroPie NBD Diskless DEMO
0Demonstration of RetroPie booting into a NBD rootfs diskless via PXE.
The client is an K8 Athlon XP with 4GB ram and an old GeForce210. The client get it's initrd from the 100Mbps NIC anfter tha I set a static IP for the Gigabit NIC and the rest of the bootstrap process.
The roms (which I do own phisical copies for) share mounted via samba protocol which is on the same VM network/and VM Server as the server hosting the NBD filesystem. Usually take less time to boot in to the OS but still this is reasonable for a system hosted completely via network.
No noticable lags other than my wiiu pro controller hooked via an old blutooth adapter.
I did notices some audio glitches when the video previews are playing but nothing notiable while in game.