run-windows11.py no longer installs Windows or touches ISO/img files: it
creates a QCOW2 overlay on the base image (made by vm-images/build-windows-base.sh)
and, when the disk is created, mounts seed.iso. Windows reads the Unattend.xml
in its root during the specialize and OOBE passes (host name, account, auto
logon, Remote Desktop) and Configure-Windows.ps1 then installs OpenSSH with the
host's key, turns off Windows Update and copies the installer scripts.
The VM hardware uses devices with inbox Windows drivers (IDE/NVMe, e1000e,
ramfb on arm64), since the base image has no VirtIO drivers. Autounattend.xml
moves to vm-images; the vm-images pointer is updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
80-Get-UpdateStatus-Admin.ps1 prints whether the Windows 11 guest is
upgrading or downloading updates (policy, pending markers, services,
processes, BITS jobs, update events, network use); the .bat launcher
elevates and keeps the window open.
The seed ISO and Configure-Windows.ps1 now take every NN-*.bat and
NN-*.ps1, and the first-logon copy goes to Desktop\Tools instead of
Desktop\Installers.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Install it at first logon from the Win32-OpenSSH zip on the seed ISO via
Configure-Windows.ps1 -InstallOpenSSH, replacing the manual 05/06 batch
files. The administrator public key now comes from the host
(SSH_PUBLIC_KEY_FILE or ~/.ssh/id_*.pub) instead of being hardcoded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Carry the zip for the host architecture in the seed ISO and add
06-Install-OpenSSH-Zip-Admin.bat, which installs from it instead of
Windows Update. Update vm-images.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pick qemu-system-aarch64, the AArch64 UEFI firmware and a per-architecture
QEMU config (NVMe disk, virtio-net, ramfb, USB installation media) on arm64,
render the answer file for the target architecture, and move the q35-only
disk and NIC devices out of the shared config. Update vm-images to match
arm64 Windows ISO names.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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