winup
Archived: look at https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu instead.
Automate downloading and setting up a Windows 10 64-bit VM on VirtualBox.
Still a Work In Progress, so please file bugs.
Requirements
- VirtualBox v6 with VT-x or alike
- 4 GiB spare RAM recomended
- 50 GiB spare SSD recommended
A decent CPU and internet connection are also recommended, as the process requires running Windows and downloading many large archives. TODO: add estimates of final time/disk/net usage.
Objectives
The final VM snapshot will be better than the original from Microsoft:
- Fast: the live snapshot starts up in ~5s on my laptop
- Usable: SSH access, including login as admin (TODO ssh part)
- Idle: less bloatware, no telemetry, fewer background services
The final image has the users ieuser and administrator, both with the
default password Passw0rd!.
It should also be trivial to install developer tools on the final VM, such as Git or Go. That's also a TODO for now.
Notes
The process currently relies on VirtualBox. I considered Vagrant, but did not want to add more dependencies. VirtualBox seems powerful and portable enough.
The initial VM setup steps happen with its virtual network unplugged, to keep Windows from installing random software, and to speed up the process.
If you have issues with VirtualBox on Linux, see the Arch Wiki page.
Development
The project is script-like, using panics and helper functions to keep the code short and readable. Almost all encountered errors stop the process, anyway.
Sleeps should be avoided at all costs. Waits and events are better than periodic polling, if possible.
Continuous Integration would be good, but I don't know a free service that's powerful enough. I don't have a desktop or server powerful enough lying around for the job.
License
All code in this repository is BSD-3 licensed; see LICENSE.
All other pieces of software, including the Windows 10 VM image, are not distributed with this git repository.