You cannot service an x86-based image from an x64-based host that does not support WOW64

Environment

LANDesk Provisioning

WinPE x64
Target machine booting in UEFI mode

Problem/Issue/Symptoms

Trying to deploy an x86 operating system image on a device booting in UEFI mode fails.
More specifically, WinPE x64 is loaded, which is not able to install drivers in HII with DISM to x86 images.

In this situation, the error you receive is the following:

DISM Error: An error occurred. You cannot service an x86-based image from an x64-based host that does not support WOW64

Solution

The scenario doesn't work by design, as per Microsoft specifications

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh290675%28v=ws.10%29.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh825186.aspx

There are two possible workarounds to avoid this issue

1) Set up the target machine to boot in BIOS mode, as this will make the machine to boot into WinPE x86
2) Migrate your x86 operating system image to an x64 Windows version.