Libguestfs - Sep 2023 - Fwd: virt-v2v creating image that does not install guest agent on first boot

If we suspect that the whole firstboot mechanism might not be working
with the new version of Windows, one way to test it (on this one, or a
freshly installed Windows VM) would be:

  $ virt-customize -a windows.img --firstboot-command 'echo hello'

and see if "hello" is written in some form to the log.txt file inside
the guest after it boots.

If that doesn't work then it's likely some change in Windows which is
breaking firstboot support.

Rich.

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After testing it again today, the guest agent is still not installed, however 
this time the C:\Program Files\Guestfs\Firstboot\log.txt exists:

starting firstboot service
running "C:\Program
Files\Guestfs\Firstboot\scripts\5000-0001-wait-pnp.bat"
         1 file(s) moved.
Wait for PnP to complete
.... exit code 0
running "C:\Program 
Files\Guestfs\Firstboot\scripts\5000-0002-install-qemu-ga-x86_64-msi-ps1.bat"
         1 file(s) moved.
Removing any previously scheduled qemu-ga installation
ERROR: The system cannot find the file specified.
Scheduling delayed installation of qemu-ga from qemu-ga-x86_64.msi
SUCCESS: The scheduled task "Firstboot-qemu-ga" has successfully been
created.
.... exit code 0
running "C:\Program 
Files\Guestfs\Firstboot\scripts\5000-0003-uninstall-VMware-Tools.bat"
         1 file(s) moved.
uninstalling VMware Tools
.... exit code 0
uninstalling firstboot service
Service uninstalled successfully


The folder scripts is empty, all scripts are in scripts-done. The contents of 
the folder are:
5000-0001-wait-pnp.bat
123 5000-0001-wait-pnp.log
5000-0002-install-qemu-ga-x86_64-msi-ps1.bat
5000-0003-uninstall-VMware-Tools.bat
5000-0003-uninstall-VMware-Tools.log

Note that the .log is missing for qemu-ga.

At least today I could twice provision the windows 11 VM, and in both cases the 
main log.txt was generated by the time I checked. How are the services 
scheduled? Could it be that they were delayed by > 1h?

On 11.09.23 21:29, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> If we suspect that the whole firstboot mechanism might not be working
> with the new version of Windows, one way to test it (on this one, or a
> freshly installed Windows VM) would be:
> 
>    $ virt-customize -a windows.img --firstboot-command 'echo hello'
> 
> and see if "hello" is written in some form to the log.txt file
inside
> the guest after it boots.
> 
> If that doesn't work then it's likely some change in Windows which
is
> breaking firstboot support.
> 
> Rich.
> 
Regards, Lee