To complete your Diskless Solution for you CyberCafé, you need a Game Disk !
Game disk is in fact a virtual disk. It’s a physical hard disk or just a partition on server. Game disk is almost used for game disk – on server, install games into this disk, on client side, you will get this disk and run games directly just like a local disk.
Of course, you can also use this function for other intentions.
The size of Game Disk will be very high.
We can create a Game Disk with VirtualBox to be a Master Image, after prepare all games, you can make multiples copies of this image to each Client (computer).
Note: On your Diskless Setup, need to exist one Game Disk per Client ( Computer );
Procedure
- Creating a Game Disk
- Export Game Disk with vblade
- Install AoE Initiator
- Attach Disk with AoE Initiator
- Format Disk with Windows
- Dettach Disk
- Attach Disk on Master Client Machine ( image )
1 – Creating a Game Disk
With VirtualBox, open a settings from any Virtual Machine , and on Storage Section create a Disk.
Task 1 – Create disk
Task 2- Select format
Task 3 – Fixed Size
Task 4 – Set name and location
Task 5 – Finish
Task 6 – Wait the creation ( 10 minutes )
2 – Export Game Disk with vblade
Use vblade to export the AoE Targe.
vblade -b 400 1 1 "\Device\{value}" "d:\Master-Game-Disk.vhd"
3 – Install AoE Initiator
Download and install “
Aoe Initiator” from StarWind Software.
The installation is simple, just Next, Next, Finish…
4 – Attach Disk with AoE Initiator
Attach the disk, set name and mark options.
5 – Format Disk with Windows
Open the “Disk Management Utility” from Windows and create a partition and
format the Drive.
6 – Dettach Disk
Dettach the Disk;
7 - Attach Disk on Master Client Machine ( image )
Now attach the Game Disk on Client, install AoE initiator ! Your Game Disk is ready.
Install all games, after disconnect AoE Initiator and on server, multiply copies of game disk to other clients.
Note: After connect on disk, put the AoE Initiator icon on Startup of Windows to automatically map the new Game Disk on boot.
Note 2: Never connect exported disk with two or more AoE Initiators with differents machines at same disk simultaneously.
