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Dev Notes

Improvement Ideas

  • Disable PXE boot delay
  • Mark ethernet and storage devices as not external
  • Disable screensaver
  • Remove desktop walpaper
  • Option to set windows classic theme
  • Share clipboard over VNC (qemu spice only?)
  • Set screen resolution and etc in runtime?
  • Automatically install drivers if video or network adapater has changed on Windows XP 32bit (Windows XP 64bit can do that by default)
  • Do one login after setup to make next login much faster
  • Web-based viewer (noVNC, for example)
  • Add VNC authentication (password, for example)
  • Option to disable Selenium Server
  • Show network icon for network adapter?
  • Option to install custom trusted SSL certificates in runtime
  • Allow to use other windows xp images (need to test)?
  • Speedup windows xp (disable unneeded features and services)
  • Dubug installation process in Docker (record VNC video to file?)
  • IE 5.5 (using Windows 2000 Pro)
  • Add Docker HEALTHCHECK
  • Test different accel values: kvm, xen, hax
  • QEMU balloon driver and service
  • QEMU guest agent
  • AWS ECS auto discovery
  • Set true UTC time inside guest without Dayling Saving.
  • Disable swap.
  • Disable browsing history for IE.
  • Private profiles for IE8.
  • Migrate to Amazon Coretto OpenJDK build.
  • Get rid of samba and download start-node.bat from the host using http, socat could be used to serve files: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29739901/socat-fake-http-server-use-a-file-as-server-response

Detect IE version on the fly

: read internet explorer version directly from registry
: IE_VERSION will have full version like A.B.C.D
: IE_MAJOR_VERSION will have only major version like A
reg query "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer" /v Version | findstr /rc:REG_SZ > ie-version-reg.txt
for /f "tokens=3" %%a in (ie-version-reg.txt) do set IE_VERSION=%%a
del /f /q ie-version-reg.txt
for /f "tokens=1 delims=." %%a in ("%IE_VERSION%") do set IE_MAJOR_VERSION=%%a

echo Internet Explorer version: %IE_MAJOR_VERSION% (%IE_VERSION%)

Enable qxl in qemu

yum install -y libcacard spice-server-devel
QEMU_CONF_OPTS="... --enable-spice"
cp -v virtio/{viostor,qxl,NetKVM}/...
yum uninstall -y spice-server-devel

Mark devices as not external

QEMU 4.x marks ethernet and storage devices as conneced to USB with hot plug.

https://www.robvanderwoude.com/subinacl.php https://download.microsoft.com/download/1/7/d/17d82b72-bc6a-4dc8-bfaa-98b37b22b367/subinacl.msi

Checklist:

  • Update Dockerfile
  • Update once.bat
  • subinacl could be used to grant access to registry section because this one is rectricted by default
  • Test on different network and storage devices and OSes
if exist subinacl.msi (
  echo Installing subinacl...
  start /wait msiexec /i subinacl.msi /passive
  set "PATH=%PATH%;%ProgramFiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools;%ProgramFiles(x86)%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools"
)

echo Disabling eject hard disk (viostor)
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_1AF4&DEV_1000&SUBSYS_00011AF4&REV_00\3&13c0b0c5&0&90" /v Capabilities /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f > nul

echo Disabling eject network card (virtio)
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_1AF4&DEV_1002&SUBSYS_00051AF4&REV_00\3&13c0b0c5&0&18" /v Capabilities /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f > nul

echo Disabling eject network card (e1000)
reg add "HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_100E&SUBSYS_11001AF4&REV_03\3&13c0b0c5&0&18" /v Capabilities /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /f > nul

Disable desktop walpaper

This need to be executed on first login:

echo Disabling desktop walpaper...
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General" /v BackupWallpaper /t REG_SZ /d "" /f > nul
reg add "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Desktop\General" /v Wallpaper /t REG_SZ /d "" /f > nul
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Wallpaper /t REG_SZ /d "" /f > nul

Disable screen saver

This need to be executed on first login:

echo Disabling screen saver...
reg delete "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v SCRNSAVE.EXE /f > nul
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v ScreenSaveActive /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f > nul

Change resolution in runtime

Disable PXE boot delay

Passing romfile= to -nic should fix the issue.

noVNC

apt-get install git

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_11.x | bash -
apt-get install -y nodejs

mkdir -p /opt && cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/novnc/noVNC.git
cd /opt/noVNC
git checkout v1.1.0
npm install
./utils/use_require.js --with-app --as commonjs
npm install http-server -g

Balloon driver

Balloon driver can release unused guest OS memory back to host.

This feature requires more testing:

QEMU option (entrypoint and Dockerfile): -device virtio-balloon

Installation from virtio drivers iso:

DRIVER_PATH=`[ "$WIN_ARCH" = 32 ] && echo "xp/x86" || echo "2k3/amd64"`
cp -v virtio-win/Balloon/$DRIVER_PATH/* 'install/$oem$/$1/drivers'

Service installation in once.bat:

cd /d c:\drivers

if exist blnsvr.exe (
  echo Installing QEMU balloon service...
  start /wait blnsvr.exe /i
)

Guest agent

https://wiki.qemu.org/index.php/Features/GuestAgent

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