Re: [Libguestfs] virt-sysprep on Windows Guest

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 03:34:40PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote: > On 05/25/2012 03:30 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > >> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 01:47:53PM +0800, Wanlong Gao wrote: >>> Hi Rich, folks, >>> >>> I wont to start doing the windows guest support for virt-sysprep, >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> What do you think should be prepared on a new cloned windows guest? >> >> The main thing is to be able to run Microsoft's sysprep tool >> on a Windows guest. >> >> Chris wrote some code to do this already in this branch of oz, but >> it's very complex: >> >> https://github.com/clalancette/oz/tree/win2k8customize >> >> See in particular: >> https://github.com/clalancette/oz/blob/win2k8customize/oz/Windows.py >> >> People will also want to set the hostname (--hostname option) and run >> scripts (--script option). > > > So, it's no necessary to support windows in our virt-sysprep because > it already has a tool to do the same thing for windows, right? 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

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.

Rich.