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. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/