Possibility to make Automatic Unattended Guest OS Install
Posted: 20. Dec 2009, 20:15
Hi All !
One great feature that I would absolutely love to see here is Unattended Guest OS Install, similar to VMware "Easy Install".
As with Seamless mode, that I did with VBox 1.3.x, much before it was officially available, I already can do unattended installs with VBox 3.x with NT5.x (2000/XP/2003) guests, but it requires too many hacks, primarily because Windows host does not have built-in loop mounter for Virtual Floppies.
It consists of several steps:
1. Detecting unknown ISO file. This can be done by MD5sum of the first 5MB of the CD-ROM ISO, so the process becomes near instant. We must have a databse of MD5sums of standard ISOs.
2. Loop mounting of media (Virtual Floppy) to put scripts into... (I don't know how do it on Windows host, without starting a VM)
3. Putting data into it (Unattended scripts). I know a bit about unattended of Windows NT 5.x line of guest OSes.
I wrote a bit in Wish #5810
What do you think of it ?
Do you have good solutions to the problems above ?
-Technologov
One great feature that I would absolutely love to see here is Unattended Guest OS Install, similar to VMware "Easy Install".
As with Seamless mode, that I did with VBox 1.3.x, much before it was officially available, I already can do unattended installs with VBox 3.x with NT5.x (2000/XP/2003) guests, but it requires too many hacks, primarily because Windows host does not have built-in loop mounter for Virtual Floppies.
It consists of several steps:
1. Detecting unknown ISO file. This can be done by MD5sum of the first 5MB of the CD-ROM ISO, so the process becomes near instant. We must have a databse of MD5sums of standard ISOs.
2. Loop mounting of media (Virtual Floppy) to put scripts into... (I don't know how do it on Windows host, without starting a VM)
3. Putting data into it (Unattended scripts). I know a bit about unattended of Windows NT 5.x line of guest OSes.
I wrote a bit in Wish #5810
What do you think of it ?
Do you have good solutions to the problems above ?
-Technologov