Re: [qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-30 Thread 'crazyqube' via qubes-users
Well, once we have Chocolatey provisioned we can easily specify for Sysinternals to be pre-insatlled. As for the zeroing, there is an option in the windows-7.xml answer file that provides an option to zero the disk before installation but I disabled it because I though it would slow down the

Re: [qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-30 Thread 'crazyqube' via qubes-users
Hi Brendan, I'm not sure why you're getting only 50/50 success rate on the installations. For me it's been perfect every time. This will need to be investigated. Some of that stuff about increasing I/O throughput and stub priority stuff sounds great as I was unaware of it. Right now when QWT

Re: [qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-30 Thread Brendan Hoar
On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 2:14 AM 799 wrote: > Hello Brendan, > > Thanks for the improvement list. Some questions: > > schrieb am Do., 29. Aug. 2019, 15:27: > >> - Increasing the device-stub VM priority from 256 to 1000 during install >> utilizing xl sched-credit. This dramatically increases the

Re: [qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-30 Thread 799
Hello Brendan, Thanks for the improvement list. Some questions: schrieb am Do., 29. Aug. 2019, 15:27: > - 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. > How can this be

Re: [qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-29 Thread Brendan Hoar
Couple more: - As windows 7 does not support SCSI unmap, and C and E are on virtual SCSI devices: install sdelete by default and schedule sdelete.exe -z C:\ and sdelete -z E:\ ... largish zero writes are caught at the lvm later and unallocated from storage - plus passed on as discards to physical

Re: [qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-29 Thread brendan . hoar
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

Re: [qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-24 Thread brendan . hoar
On Tuesday, August 20, 2019 at 6:54:02 PM UTC-4, 799 wrote: > > Hello, > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 21:34, 'awokd' via qubes-users < > qubes...@googlegroups.com > wrote: > >> 'crazyqube' via qubes-users: >> > I just made my solution for fully automatically creating and installing >> new Windows qubes

Re: [qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-20 Thread 799
Hello, On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 21:34, 'awokd' via qubes-users < qubes-users@googlegroups.com> wrote: > 'crazyqube' via qubes-users: > > I just made my solution for fully automatically creating and installing > new Windows qubes from scratch public! It pre-installs Qubes Windows Tools > and

Re: [qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-20 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
'crazyqube' via qubes-users: > I just made my solution for fully automatically creating and installing new > Windows qubes from scratch public! It pre-installs Qubes Windows Tools and > Firefox so now you don't even have to open Internet Explorer to download a > good browser! (lol) > > It's

[qubes-users] qvm-create-windows-qube Automatically creates

2019-08-19 Thread 'crazyqube' via qubes-users
I just made my solution for fully automatically creating and installing new Windows qubes from scratch public! It pre-installs Qubes Windows Tools and Firefox so now you don't even have to open Internet Explorer to download a good browser! (lol) It's currently ready for use at: