I've recently completed a windows 7 install and gotten it to update completely. This was not at all easy.
I took my original ISO and updated it with the recent convenience rollup (I used an unpatched win 7 install with about 30G of user space to do this, you'll need the disk space necessary for two copies of the ISO, the 1G+ convenience patch and some software for the patching): http://www.howtogeek.com/255540/the-last-windows-7-iso-youll-ever-need-how-to-slipstream-the-convenience-rollup/ I then installed from this iso, I installed another patch that's supposed to improve windows patching speed that I found out about on stackoverflow: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3138612 I then waited a very long time, it was still stuck checking for updates but the shutdown option showed patches ready to install. After 2-3 shutdowns to install patches and a lot of waiting the system is now fully patched. Hopefully this information can help you, -JohnF On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 10:15 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, I finally got past the cdrom issue (ie didn't need it anyway!) and > installed win7 with only one hiccup (512 default mem setting) and it seemed > to install fine, I had net access and everything. I downloaded the GWX > control panel app and anti-beacon then tried to run win updates, it ran, and > ran, for like 3 hours never giving any indication that it was doing anything > but "checking". That was before started "start VM for Windows Tools > Installation" and ran the qubes-tools-WIN7x64-3.0.4.1 app in the virt cdrom > that showed up in win7 , I then rebooted win7 and was able to open shortcuts > to apps in win7 (win7 appvm?) from Qubes! Great! but then I am not sure what > happened, I wasn't able to start the "windows window" at first, and I think I > might have tried from the Qubes VM Manager to run "update VM" and eventually > was able to get a "windows 7 window" but now no network access at all (said > no connection), and I am no longer able to open win7 apps via shortcuts in > their own windows, now they open up a large "win7 window" (full screen) and > the app inside of that (not full screen, so win menu/taskbar etc are > accessible). I then put in the network info from the Win7 settings into > windows and set a DNS and I had internet access again, but still no updates > and still not back to being able to open up appvms). And for what its worth, > I am noticing now that before when the win7 window opened up it would not go > to full screen, now it does; also it now (not sure about before) tells me in > the bottom right hand side that its in "Test Mode, Windows 7, Build 7601". > > I am fine with starting over with the Win7 VM (after getting over the cdrom > and bsod hurdles it doesn't seem so bad) but I would like to know if in what > I have described I have done anything wrong, hopefully so as I figure I > should be doing sec updates etc in win7. > > Thanks!!! > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/43aa9356-883f-4585-9aba-64609e955567%40googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAAafysGE%3DmT-qSeN9zFWo2_KDecSTvs-mjF203Nq5z%2Bj7hbWgA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
