Server 2012 WDS under Virtualbox

     I teach a Systems Administration course for the university where I work.  As such, I like to take the students through real-world examples using virtual labs.  In researching one such lab, I ran across several snafus and figured a blog post was in order.
     In trying to setup Server 2012 under Virtualbox with Windows Deployment Services to both deploy new installations and create images for deployment, I ran into some issues.  To bring you up to speed, my setup is:

1. Active Directory Domain controller running Server 2012 x64 and serving DHCP requests 
1. This server has two NIC's (acts as a router)
1. One setup for NAT to the outside world
2. One setup for Internal Network "intnet" for domain local traffic on 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0
2.  Remote Access Role installed with NAT routing configured with the NAT NIC as the route to the outside world
2. Windows Deployment Services server running Server 2012 x64 1 NIC on internal network "intnet"
3. A client machine setup for 32 bit windows 7 with 1 NIC on internal network "intent"

This is a brief summary of what I had to do; and a few steps that I did do that go in the way...

• Setup Domain Controller (2012)
• Make sure DNS is part of DC setup
• Add DHCP scope to server
• **** DO NOT DO THIS --> Configure the “Server Options”
• These two options are for cross domain functionality
• Add 66 (WDS server name)
• Add 67 (bootfile name: boot\x86\wdsnbp.com)
• This option is only if you are using DHCP on the WDS server; which I am not
• Add 60 (pxeclient)
• Setup Windows Client
• Install Virtualbox Extension pack 
• https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• ***Enables PXE booting for Virtual Intel Cards
• The PC-net adapters have pxe capabilities, but the windows image doesn't (by default) have drivers for them; it will start to boot the installer image then fail and restart
• On a side note: the PC-net nics work just fine for a similar setup with FOG as the imaging server

From here, you should be able to set things up as normal, use a Windows 7 client iso to add an installer image and a boot image, install Windows 7 to a pre-staged client and then create a capture image to capture the Windows 7 machine and deploy it to yet another new VM.