[Libosinfo] [PATCH v4 11/12] win8.1: Re-enable unattended installation

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) zeeshanak at gnome.org
Mon May 2 21:31:54 UTC 2016


On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 8:47 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I had forgotten that win8.1 also needs Boxes patch:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765175
>>
>> With the patch in that bug applied, win8.1 installer works. I think it
>> should be mentioned in the log on this patch.
>
> Hmm. I don't see a reason for mentioning here that the installation
> doesn't work properly due to a consumer's bug.

Keeping in mind that Boxes is the reason we're working on this issue
and that other users (if any) of this functionality can easily have
the exact same issue, I think it's worth mentioning.

>>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>> <zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
>>>> I haven't yet checked but issue might be addition of .cmd file since
>>>> afaik the spice-tools version we currently use at least, does not
>>>> install correctly on win8.
>>>
>>> I checked now and it's not likely to be the cmd file since I get the
>>> same error during post-installation even if cmd is not present and
>>> ran.
>>>
>>>> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 10:57 PM, Fabiano Fidêncio <fidencio at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>>> From: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
>>>>>
>>>>> Now the unattended installation works properly, apart from the user
>>>>> avatar not being set for Windows 8 (or newer)[0].
>>>>>
>>>>> [0]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328637
>>>>>
>>>>> This reverts commit 49ae46cda4fbd2e95dc794cb64aec27117351c85.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Fabiano Fidêncio <fabiano at fidencio.org>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>  data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in | 11 +++++++++++
>>>>>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>>>>
>>>>> diff --git a/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in b/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in
>>>>> index a68c788..29b1fc6 100644
>>>>> --- a/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in
>>>>> +++ b/data/os/microsoft.com/win-8.1.xml.in
>>>>> @@ -136,5 +136,16 @@
>>>>>      <devices>
>>>>>        <device id="http://pcisig.com/pci/8086/2668"/> <!-- ICH6 -->
>>>>>      </devices>
>>>>> +
>>>>> +    <!--
>>>>> +        User avatar not being set for Windows 8 (or newer).
>>>>> +        For more details, please, see:
>>>>> +        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1328637
>>>>> +    -->
>>>>> +    <installer>
>>>>> +      <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/unattend/jeos'/>
>>>>> +      <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/unattend/desktop'/>
>>>>> +      <script id='http://microsoft.com/windows/cmd/desktop'/>
>>>>> +    </installer>
>>>>>    </os>
>>>>>  </libosinfo>
>>>>> --
>>>>> 2.7.3
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
>>
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>
>
> --
> Fabiano Fidêncio



-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)




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