Re: [Libguestfs] virt-sysprep on Windows Guest

From: "Wanlong Gao" <gaowanlong(a)cn.fujitsu.com&gt; To: "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones(a)redhat.com&gt; Cc: "Libguestfs" <libguestfs(a)redhat.com&gt; Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 4:52:34 AM Subject: Re: [Libguestfs] virt-sysprep on Windows Guest On 05/25/2012 04:47 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:52:53PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote: >> On 05/25/2012 03:46 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: >>> Windows has a sysprep tool which does the right thing for all >>> Windows >>> guests, and it's impossible to know what that tool does or >>> replicate >> >> >> You mean it's not a Open Source project? > > Definitely not. In modern versions of Windows, it is included > (under > %systemroot%/System32/sysprep). For older versions you had to > download it as a separate tool.

> >>> it. However it requires a multi-step process to run sysprep on a >>> guest, so we should make that easier for users if we can. >> >> Could you explain more detailedly to me since I'm not familiar >> with >> the stupid Windows system ? > > It's pretty complicated. Probably the best thing is to read > Microsoft's documentation on how to use it: > > https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sysprep+site:microsoft.com > > in conjunction with the Oz code: > > https://github.com/clalancette/oz/blob/win2k8customize/oz/Windows.py > > It's not easy, which is why we haven't got around to doing it so > far. Yeah, I see, thank you. Wanlong Gao > > Rich. > _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list Libguestfs(a)redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libguestfs