bootmgr waits for a key ("Press any key to boot from CD or DVD...") and
gives up after a few seconds. For ISO installs, a detached helper now taps
the space bar through the QEMU monitor for the first 30 s. Also update the
vm-images submodule for the new --window option.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A QEMU config file section cannot hold more than one hostfwd entry, so
the forwards move out of the ini files into qemu/<vm>/forwards.conf, one
"LABEL HOST_PORT GUEST_PORT" rule per line. The new vmforwards.py parses
them, skips rules whose host port is taken and builds the -netdev
argument, which every launcher now passes instead of relying on a
netdev section in the ini or on -nic.
The ini files move to qemu/<vm>/config.ini and qemu/<vm>/<os>-<arch>.ini.
The *_SSH_PORT / *_RDP_PORT variables and --rdp-port / --ssh-port still
replace the host port of the SSH and RDP rules.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the setting from qemu/windows11-darwin-arm64.ini to a -machine option
that run-windows11.py adds on macOS arm64 unless --install-from-img is given.
The workaround is only needed for usb-storage, which the NVMe install disk
does not use, and Setup hangs with the emulated interrupt controller.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
81-Toggle-Scale.ps1 writes LogPixels, Win8DpiScaling and AppliedDPI for
the current user; the change needs a restart, so the .bat launcher offers
to restart at the end. It is picked up by the existing NN-*.bat/.ps1
globs and copied to Desktop\Tools.
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>
The silent installer skips the desktop shortcut option, so the script
creates the shortcut itself.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
--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>
Replace qemu/<guest>-<arch>.ini with qemu/<guest>-<os>-<arch>.ini, where os is
linux or darwin, the name platform.system() reports. The accelerators move out
of the shared <guest>.ini into these files (KVM on Linux, HVF on macOS, TCG as
the fallback). The launchers pick the file from the host system and
architecture, and reject amd64 guests on macOS hosts, so no darwin-amd64 files
exist.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a -CopyInstallers switch to the Windows 11 configure script and enables
it in Autounattend.xml.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ws2tcp-local-gui needs qt_generate_deploy_app_script INCLUDE_PLUGINS, which
Qt 6.8 does not support.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Disables automatic Windows Update via policy, pins the current feature
release, and is enabled in Autounattend.xml.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the QEMU hardware definition of the Windows 11 VM into
qemu/windows11.ini and qemu/windows11-amd64.ini, loaded with -readconfig
like the Linux launchers. The network stays in the launcher because a
config file section cannot hold two hostfwd entries. Add --rdp-port and
--ssh-port, which override the WIN11_VM_*_PORT environment variables.
WIN11_VM_MEMORY and WIN11_VM_CPUS are replaced by the config file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Relaunch as Administrator through UAC when needed, report success or
failure, and wait for Enter before the window closes. Autounattend.xml
passes -NoPause so the unattended install does not block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add -InstallVirtIO and -EnableAutomaticLogon switches to
Configure-Windows.ps1 so it can run standalone on a physical machine.
Autounattend.xml passes both switches during the virtual machine install.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add run-ubuntu2604.py with its QEMU config files and NoCloud seed. The
launcher follows the Debian 13 one, with UBUNTU_VM_ settings and SSH
forwarded to host port 2225. The seed injects the current user's SSH public
key, uses the USTC mirror (ubuntu-ports on arm64) and installs the GNOME
desktop on first boot. Update vm-images for the ubuntu2604 image target.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Kwxp2XWvKnuEBifnCbhyX5
Moving the SSH port forward into the QEMU config files dropped the
launchers' SSH hint. Read the host port forwarded to guest port 22 from
the rendered config and print the matching ssh command.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SdbBg69LciFz8kjVCtnkbj
user-data is now a template with an @SSH_PUBKEY@ placeholder that
build-seed.sh fills in from SSH_PUBKEY_FILE, ~/.ssh/id_*.pub or ssh-agent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The option downloads the media a launcher would fetch automatically and
exits without checking for QEMU, creating a VM disk or starting the VM:
the base image for Debian, AlmaLinux and Fedora, and the VirtIO tools
ISO for Windows 11.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKxXLyiL7XJ3a9e8HmR2my
Apply the Debian launcher's config file layout to Fedora: the shared
qemu/fedora44.ini and qemu/fedora44-<arch>.ini replace the inline QEMU
arguments and the FEDORA_VM_MEMORY, FEDORA_VM_CPUS and
FEDORA_VM_SSH_PORT variables; FEDORA_VM_QEMU_CONFIG selects a different
shared config file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKxXLyiL7XJ3a9e8HmR2my
Move the Debian launcher's QEMU arguments into qemu/debian13.ini, which
the launcher renders with the per-run file paths and passes to QEMU with
-readconfig, followed by qemu/debian13-<arch>.ini for the machine type
and arm64-only devices. Memory, CPU count, SSH port and accelerator are
now set in the config files, replacing VM_MEMORY, VM_CPUS and
VM_SSH_PORT; VM_QEMU_CONFIG selects a different shared config file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKxXLyiL7XJ3a9e8HmR2my
Let each run-*.py launcher take the VM directory (disk, seed ISO, UEFI
variables, PID file, console log) from the command line, taking
precedence over the *_STATE_DIR environment variable. Paths derived
from the state directory are now computed after argument parsing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01K1dybYsc36kf3gUPB7NuNB
Each run-*.py mirrors its run-*.sh counterpart: same options, environment
variables, messages and QEMU command line. Unlike the shell scripts, the
Python ports use a portable /usr/bin/env shebang.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S8ZGHSJ5JogcTAYhPNxXTV
