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>
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>
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
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
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