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GuofangandClaude Sonnet 5.5 b26286c820 Make --install-from-img take no file; derive it from the ISO path
--install-from-img now works like --install-from-iso: the installation
media is the ISO path (WIN11_VM_INSTALL_ISO or the downloader's) with
.install.img in place of .iso, which is where
build-windows-install-disk.sh writes it by default. Drop the FILE argument
and WIN11_VM_INSTALL_IMG.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 14:24:09 +08:00
guofangandClaude Sonnet 5.5 1732ec39d0 Install Windows 11 from a disk image with --install-from-img
Reading the installation files through QEMU's emulated USB CD-ROM runs at a
few MB/s on macOS. --install-from-img FILE (or WIN11_VM_INSTALL_IMG) attaches
an installation disk image built by vm-images/build-windows-install-disk.sh as
an NVMe disk instead, which is read about 15 times faster. The image is
attached with snapshot=on because NVMe cannot report write protection and
Windows fails on a read-only volume.

Add windows11-arm64-install-speed.md with the analysis and measurements.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-17 17:02:58 +08:00