Rocky Linux 9.8 GenericCloud Base for amd64 and arm64, with pinned SHA256
checksums, from dl.rockylinux.org and the NJU mirror.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add Install-VirtIO-Drivers.ps1, run from Autounattend.xml before sysprep, and
attach the virtio-win ISO (downloaded if missing) during the build.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace --window with --headless (VNC); the window is the default. Fill the
QEMU config placeholders without nested quotes (bash 3.2 kept them literally),
and run QEMU as a background job instead of -daemonize when it shows a window
(Cocoa crashes in fork()).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Offer to build the base QCOW2, download the ISO, run npm ci and install
Chromium (from the npmmirror mirror by default). Let Playwright locate its
own Chromium so macOS works.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The answer file now boots into audit mode after Setup instead of logging on
as the built-in Administrator with a password: no account or credentials in
the answer file, and no copy of one left in C:\Windows\Panther. The auditUser
commands disable the built-in Administrator, turn hibernation off (no
hiberfil.sys in the image), remove cached answer files and setup logs, and run
sysprep /generalize.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The script no longer needs the parent repository or SSH: it builds an answer
ISO from windows11/seed/Autounattend.xml, installs Windows from the ISO in
QEMU (hardware in windows11/qemu uses only devices with inbox Windows
drivers), and the answer file generalizes the image with sysprep at the end.
The base holds only Windows: no account (the built-in Administrator is
disabled), no SSH, no settings, no VirtIO drivers, no machine identity and no
cached answer files. VMs are configured on first boot from an Unattend.xml on
an attached CD-ROM. Add --window and --from-img; press a key at the ISO boot
prompt with the z key, which neither UEFI nor Windows Setup ignores or acts on.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Installs Windows unattended from the ISO in a scratch VM (under /var/tmp
by default), generalizes it with sysprep over SSH and stores the shut-down
disk as the read-only base image that run-windows11.py clones.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
macOS's openrsync ignores --chmod, so the staged directories kept the
read-only permissions of the UDF mount and wimlib-imagex split failed
with Permission denied. Run chmod -R u+rwX on the staging directory on
Darwin.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Move the Node.js script and its dependencies into nodejs/ and let
download-images.sh call it for the image architecture.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Copy the ISO without install.wim to a staging directory, split install.wim
into it, and fill the image with one recursive mcopy instead of a mmd and
mcopy per directory. rsync --chmod keeps the staged directories writable so
that cleanup can remove them.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Print the command line before every external command (hdiutil, udisksctl,
wimlib-imagex, sgdisk, mkfs.fat, mmd, mcopy and so on) so the log shows
which command is running. Write the image straight to the output path
instead of moving it from the work directory, and remove a partial output
if the run fails or is cancelled.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
QEMU's emulated USB CD-ROM reads the Windows ISO at a few MB/s. The script
builds a bootable FAT32 GPT disk image from the ISO, splitting install.wim into
install*.swm parts for the 4 GB FAT32 file limit, so the image can be attached
as an NVMe disk and read about 15 times faster.
It runs on macOS and Debian. The ISO has to be read as UDF: hdiutil on macOS,
mount -t udf as root on Linux, otherwise udisksctl, otherwise 7z extracts it.
A desktop session automounts the loop device that udisksctl creates, so the
existing mount point is reused when there is one. The image itself is built
without root.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Download the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS server cloud image (release 20260927) for
amd64 and arm64 from the TUNA, NJU and official mirrors, verified with the
pinned SHA256 checksums from the release's SHA256SUMS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Kwxp2XWvKnuEBifnCbhyX5
Each *_IMAGE_URL may now list several mirrors of the same file. When
aria2c is installed, the file is split across all mirrors with a single
connection to each; otherwise curl or wget tries the mirrors in order,
skipping mirrors that fail or return an empty response. A partial
download is only resumed with the same downloader and mirror list.
Fedora now defaults to the TUNA, BFSU and NJU mirrors. The Aliyun
mirror is not used because it rejects aria2c.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKxXLyiL7XJ3a9e8HmR2my
download.fedoraproject.org is slow from mainland China. The TUNA mirror
serves the same file (the pinned x86_64 SHA256 matches), and
FEDORA_IMAGE_URL still overrides the default.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YKxXLyiL7XJ3a9e8HmR2my
Instead of a hard-coded file name, find the ISO in install-iso/ by
matching *Win*11*x64*.iso (case-insensitive), picking the highest
version-sorted name when several match. The QCOW2 path is derived from
the detected ISO name, falling back to an existing *Win*11*x64*.qcow2
in base-qcow2/ when the ISO is absent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ks2ixr4KHXBtLuCet7Ch5Z
Debian/AlmaLinux/Fedora image filenames, URLs, and checksums were
hardcoded to arm64/aarch64 (for Apple Silicon macOS), which would
silently download the wrong-architecture image on an Intel/amd64
host. Detect the architecture from the host (uname -m), normalized
to arm64/amd64, with VM_IMAGE_ARCH as an override; the run-*.sh
scripts in the parent repo use the same override so both stay in
sync. amd64 keeps the previously pinned checksums; arm64 checksums
are still unpinned pending upstream publication.
windows11 is unaffected: it stays x86_64-only, matching run-windows11.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
