[Libosinfo] [PATCHv2 3/4] win7,installer: Adapt for Windows 8

[Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)]

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
<zeeshanak at gnome.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:20:35PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
>>> From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak at gnome.org>
>>>
>>> The presence of 'InstallFrom' in the XML breaks unattended installation
>>> for Windows 8
>>> and its not needed for Windows 7 now that we require
>>> product key. 'ProductKey' is expected in different locations in the XML
>>> by Windows 8 but same location works for Windows 7 as well.
>>
>> All of this is not really accurate. Win8 seems to require
>> Microsoft-Windows-Setup/UserData/ProductKey/Key to be set, which seems to
>> be exclusive with using
>> Microsoft-Windows-Setup/ImageInstall/OSImage/InstallFrom/MetaData (or at
>> least some care needs to be taken when using both together). As letting the
>> Windows installer decide on which OSImage to use from the product key
>> rather than hardcoding use of the first OSImage on the ISO seems more
>> robust,  we switch from InstallFrom installation image selection to
>> ProductKey installation image selection.
>>
>> Also, ProductKey is not expected in a different location for Windows 8, but
>> there are 2 different locations where you can put it with different
>> purposes,
>
> I clearly recall that I spent many hours to figure this one out.
> Windows 8 unattend install certainly breaks if you don't move the
> product key in the XML. You might be right that log is not 100%
> accurate about this but its pretty damn close.
>
>> the one at Microsoft-Windows-Setup/UserData/ProductKey/Key is
>> used for installation image selection (ie as a /IMAGE/INDEX replacement).
>> The ProductKey that was set for Win7 is used for Windows activation (which
>> you have to do within 30 days of installation), so we should set it as well
>> in all cases if this does not break win8 unattended (I don't think I've
>> tested that).
>
> I give up. Could you please modify these patches and/or their commit
> logs? As long as they enable windows 8 unattended installation without
> breaking it for windows 7, I'll be happy.

NM everything above. I was just way too tired to understand anything
you were telling me. You must admit that all this is pretty confusing
anyways. I'll try with product keys specified in both locations and
update the patch accordingly.

-- 
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124