After testing it again today, the guest agent is still not installed, however
this time the C:\Program Files\Guestfs\Firstboot\log.txt exists:
starting firstboot service
running "C:\Program Files\Guestfs\Firstboot\scripts\5000-0001-wait-pnp.bat"
1 file(s) moved.
Wait for PnP to complete
.... exit code 0
running "C:\Program
Files\Guestfs\Firstboot\scripts\5000-0002-install-qemu-ga-x86_64-msi-ps1.bat"
1 file(s) moved.
Removing any previously scheduled qemu-ga installation
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
Scheduling delayed installation of qemu-ga from qemu-ga-x86_64.msi
SUCCESS: The scheduled task "Firstboot-qemu-ga" has successfully been created.
.... exit code 0
running "C:\Program
Files\Guestfs\Firstboot\scripts\5000-0003-uninstall-VMware-Tools.bat"
1 file(s) moved.
uninstalling VMware Tools
.... exit code 0
uninstalling firstboot service
Service uninstalled successfully
The folder scripts is empty, all scripts are in scripts-done. The contents of
the folder are:
5000-0001-wait-pnp.bat
123 5000-0001-wait-pnp.log
5000-0002-install-qemu-ga-x86_64-msi-ps1.bat
5000-0003-uninstall-VMware-Tools.bat
5000-0003-uninstall-VMware-Tools.log
Note that the .log is missing for qemu-ga.
At least today I could twice provision the windows 11 VM, and in both cases the
main log.txt was generated by the time I checked. How are the services
scheduled? Could it be that they were delayed by > 1h?
On 11.09.23 21:29, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
If we suspect that the whole firstboot mechanism might not be working
with the new version of Windows, one way to test it (on this one, or a
freshly installed Windows VM) would be:
$ virt-customize -a windows.img --firstboot-command 'echo hello'
and see if "hello" is written in some form to the log.txt file inside
the guest after it boots.
If that doesn't work then it's likely some change in Windows which is
breaking firstboot support.
Rich.
Regards, Lee