Hi crazyqube, I've used this to generate 20-30 VMs.
I've noticed some incomplete installs (50/50). There do seem to be come timing dependencies that sometimes cause failures. I'll be investigating these further next week. I have some thoughts on changes I'll work on, if you're not planning to work on them, that might address some of these: - Defaulting to debug=true so that boot problems can be easily diagnosed, with instructions on how the user should manually disable it when finished. - Increasing the device-stub VM priority from 256 to 1000 during install utilizing xl sched-credit. This dramatically increases the IO throughput for the installation. - Defaulting to no-network. For the most qubes usage, I think many of us won't plan to connect Windows to the internet. - If network is explicitly set, only set it to the given option before/after the final boot cycle, to minimize interference. - Increasing the run-time of the final boot cycle, and possibly overlapping that shutdown with the next creation. Utilize qvm-run shutdown.exe or qvm-run a script instead of qvm-shutdown. - Refactor repeated code into bash functions. - Ensure loop devices in windows-mgmt are removed when finished (keep the qui-devices menu uncluttered) - Perhaps restart windows-mgmt between VM creations. - Automate installation of xenvbd 8.2.2 or 8.2.1 after appropriate Windows 7 updates are installed. - Document that xenvbd is needed for attaching block devices from qui-devices. - Utilize double digit counter instead of single digit. - Option to disable windows update permanantly. - Option to initiate windows update on last reboot (after QWT is installed). - Increase qrexec_timeout to 600 by default. Brendan -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/aa0b38ae-ec25-40cb-a0c4-0c92b3cd2be7%40googlegroups.com.
