Hello fellow Fedora, libvirt and libguestfs users,
If you have any Windows guests, then you can help Fedora to support Windows guests better by spending a few minutes testing the Windows Registry feature we just added to libguestfs 1.0.75.
You will need:
- A Windows NT/200x/XP/Vista/7/... guest
- Fedora 12 or Fedora Rawhide host
- libguestfs-tools >= 1.0.75 (from updates or http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=8391 ) - a few minutes of your time
The tests:
(1) Run the virt-win-reg commands shown in the following web page, where "MyWinGuest" should be replaced with the name of the Windows guest as known to libvirt:
http://libguestfs.org/virt-win-reg.1.html#examples
Do the commands run without any errors?
Does the output look sensible?
If you have several Windows guests, please try as many different sorts as possible!
(2) Download the registry binary files and try to convert them to XML:
guestfish -i MyWinGuest --ro <<'EOF' download win:\windows\system32\config\software software download win:\windows\system32\config\system system download win:\windows\system32\config\sam sam download win:\windows\system32\config\security security EOF
hivexml software > software.xml hivexml system > system.xml hivexml sam > sam.xml hivexml security > security.xml
Do those commands run without error?
If there's an error, try adding the hivexml -k option.
Does the XML look complete? (Try running the XML through tidy -xml -indent -quiet < foo.xml | less )
I hope you don't find any bugs, but if you do:
Send a reply to this message, or report a bug in Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?component=libguestfs&product=V...
It's useful to include the following details:
HIVEX_DEBUG=1 hivexml regfile 2>&1 > log.out
The Registry file itself that is failing (but note that Registry files can contain sensitive data).
It's also useful to have positive feedback ("it worked!").
Thanks for any testing you can give, and if you have any other suggestions for handling Windows guests from Fedora, please let me know.
Rich.