Month: August 2017

Categories
ConfigMgr

ConfigMgr Windows 10 Enterprise 1703 Stuck at “Just a moment”

I ran into an issue when testing Windows 10 Enterprise 1703  in the lab, when deploying via ConfigMgr Current Branch – essentially after image deployment the machine would reboot and just show a blue screen with “just a moment.”

I came across this post which led to the solution – a modification to the Unattend.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
    <settings pass="oobeSystem">
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="amd64" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <OOBE>
                <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
                <HideLocalAccountScreen>true</HideLocalAccountScreen>
                <HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
                <HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
                <HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
                <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
                <ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC>
                <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>
                <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
            </OOBE>
        </component>
        <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
            <OOBE>
                <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
                <HideLocalAccountScreen>true</HideLocalAccountScreen>
                <HideOEMRegistrationScreen>true</HideOEMRegistrationScreen>
                <HideOnlineAccountScreens>true</HideOnlineAccountScreens>
                <HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
                <NetworkLocation>Work</NetworkLocation>
                <ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC>
                <SkipMachineOOBE>true</SkipMachineOOBE>
                <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE>
            </OOBE>
        </component>
    </settings>
    <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:c:/temp/install.wim#Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

 

Categories
Linux

Creating a Windows Server 2012 R2 KVM/ QEMU Guest

You’ll need to obtain the latest virtio-win-<version>.iso file and copy this to you host, alongside the Windows Server 2012 R2 ISO. Get the former from here: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/archive-virtio/

Both of these ISO’s will be mounted on the guest as you’ll have to manually load the virtstor drivers during Windows setup.

Use the code below to create the guest machine, this assumes you have copied ISO images to /var/kvm/images/iso:

sudo virt-install \
--name vwinguest1 \
--ram 2048 \
--disk path=/var/kvm/images/vm/vwinguest1.qcow2,size=16,bus=virtio,format=qcow2 \
--disk /var/kvm/images/iso/win2012r2.ISO,device=cdrom,bus=ide \
--disk /var/kvm/images/iso/virtio-win.iso,device=cdrom,bus=ide \
--vcpus 1 \
--os-type windows \
--os-variant win2k12r2 \
--network bridge=br0,model=virtio \
--graphics vnc,listen=0.0.0.0 \
--noautoconsole \
--accelerate \
--console pty,target_type=serial

Now open KVM and connect to the host IP on port 5901 (or the next free VNC port if you have other guests running with VNC graphics on this host).

Use the code below to auto-start the VMs on host start-up:

sudo virsh autostart vwindc1
Categories
DevOps

Periodic Table of DevOps Tools

Whilst not exhaustive (a difficult task in the world of DevOps tools), I came across this really useful interactive info-graphic on DevOps tools: https://xebialabs.com/periodic-table-of-devops-tools