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GuofangandClaude Opus 5.5 942c97686b Auto-detect the Windows 11 installation ISO
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
2026-09-30 09:37:04 +08:00

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vm-images

Shared, locally cached virtual-machine installation media and base images. Downloaded ISO, QCOW2, IMG, VHD, and VHDX files are intentionally excluded from Git.

Download images

Download every supported image:

./download-images.sh

Download or check selected targets:

./download-images.sh debian13
./download-images.sh almalinux10
./download-images.sh fedora44
./download-images.sh virtio-win

The Windows installation ISO is not downloaded because Microsoft's temporary download URLs expire. Place it manually in install-iso/; the script finds it automatically by matching Win, 11, x64 and .iso in that order (*Win*11*x64*.iso, case-insensitive). If several files match, the highest version-sorted name is used. Check which file was picked with ./download-images.sh --print-path windows11 --iso.

Query image paths

The path interface prints one absolute path without downloading anything:

./download-images.sh --print-path debian13
./download-images.sh --print-path almalinux10
./download-images.sh --print-path fedora44
./download-images.sh --print-path virtio-win
./download-images.sh --print-path windows11
./download-images.sh --print-path windows11 --iso

The Windows target prints the QCOW2 path by default. Add --iso to print its manually supplied installation ISO path. The QCOW2 is named after the detected ISO (for example Win11_25H2_English_x64_v2.iso → base-qcow2/Win11_25H2_English_x64_v2.qcow2); if no ISO is present, an existing *Win*11*x64*.qcow2 in base-qcow2/ is used instead.

Download URLs can be overridden with DEBIAN_IMAGE_URL, ALMA_IMAGE_URL, FEDORA_IMAGE_URL, and VIRTIO_WIN_ISO_URL. The Fedora checksum can be overridden with FEDORA_IMAGE_SHA256 when using a custom image.