[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/2] firstboot: schedule firstboot as delayed task

[Tomáš Golembiovský]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2020 14:36:24 +0000
"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 12:04:18PM +0100, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
> > Instead of running firstboot scripts during early boot schedule a task
> > delayed for 1-2 minute.
> > 
> > During the first boot, after virt-v2v conversion, Windows installs the
> > drivers injected by virit-v2v. When this installation is finished
> > Windows enforces some kind of internal reboot. This unfortunately
> > terminates any running firstboot scritps thus killing for example the
> > installation of qemu-ga MSI.
> > 
> > Hopefully delaying the installtion to some later time can also fix
> > problem we sometimes saw on Windows 2012R2 when installing RHEV-APT,
> > where the installer terminated immediately with the error:
> > 
> >   Failed to connect to server. Error: 0x8007045B
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi at redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  mlcustomize/firstboot.ml | 10 +++++++++-
> >  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mlcustomize/firstboot.ml b/mlcustomize/firstboot.ml
> > index c3ebfd9..b4ca181 100644
> > --- a/mlcustomize/firstboot.ml
> > +++ b/mlcustomize/firstboot.ml
> > @@ -286,10 +286,18 @@ set log=%%firstboot%%\\log.txt
> >  set scripts=%%firstboot%%\\scripts
> >  set scripts_done=%%firstboot%%\\scripts-done
> >  
> > -call :main >> \"%%log%%\" 2>&1
> > +call :main %%1 >> \"%%log%%\" 2>&1
> >  exit /b
> >  
> >  :main
> > +
> > +if not '%%1' == 'real' (
> > +    REM schedule delayed task
> > +    schtasks.exe /Delete /TN Firstboot /F
> > +    powershell.exe -command \"$d = (get-date).AddSeconds(119); schtasks.exe /Create /SC ONCE /ST $d.ToString('HH:mm') /SD $d.ToString('MM/dd/yyyy') /RU SYSTEM /TN Firstboot /TR \\\"%%~dpnx0 real\\\"\"
> > +    exit /b
> > +)
> > +
> >  echo starting firstboot service  
> 
> I have really no clue about this.
> 
> What is "~dpnx0"?

I wanted to documented that in a comment at first. But then I decided
against that as it seemed that as it seemed such patterns are used in
multiple places in the code (ergo everyone knows).

Looking now I see two occurrence in convert_windows.ml and one in
firstboot.ml. I guess picking one of those for the comment should be
enough.


> 
> I wwill say that in general we do need a way that we can order
> firstboot scripts so that some run before others.  At the moment the
> Windows static IP script sometimes runs before the network device is
> created (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1788823).  I guess we could
> hack that by making the sleep time above settable when registering a
> firstboot script, but what we really need is some kind of dependency
> system.  I have no idea if Windows has a mechanism to do this already.

Such ordering or dependency mechanism would be nice, but I guess that's
beyond what command line tools provide. Maybe we could script that to
some degree if we turn the main firstboot script completely into
PowerShell. But that would mean opening a can of worms.

    Tomas

> 
> Rich.
> 
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Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi at redhat.com>