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Cherrie Patete
believe me I dislike Windows, but is not because I love it somuch that I need to have a windows container. My company heavily relies on Windows, that is not going to be matter of hours/days to move our products to a platform independent env.
If you must deploy a hypervisor, WSL2 or Hyper-V is a mess to deploy on a windows box that is nested in ESXi is a mess, and a real pain to get up and running. Virtualbox with Docker Toolbox maybe a valuable option here is the github.
Good post @rimelek !
Yes, shortly after I made that post I realized that docker toolbox is no longer supported by docker. Therefore I gave in and deployed Hyper-V with WSL2 (not sure if both are needed or not). Here are the instructions and links I followed to get it all done:
I have never used QEMU on Windows. Only on Linux with KVM, but I used UTM on MacOS to install a Linux OS and install Docker. UTM is based on QEMU. It worked but the performance will depend on your machine.
Adding python to the path isn't necessary to execute the script in a command prompt or double clicking in Explorer, only if you want to start an interactive python session or running the script with python yourscript.py
I tried removing .py extension from file.py name and then ran command python file python can understand the code without any extension for single file, but if you use modules then you need to use .py extension. Else you can add .py to path text in enviornment variables and run
assoc .py=Python.File
ftype Python.File=c:\path to \python.exe "%1" %*
Just want to start my mount from login/boot without having a cmd window open. I have the batch file and when using shell:startup, it works and runs when i log in but the cmd window just stays open ready to print a log for me. Want to just get rid of it and mount only
You can create a scheduled task to run it with. If you check "Run whether user is logged on or not", it will run hidden in background (there is a "Hidden" checkbox, but it is only to hide the task from the Task Scheduler user interface).
It is also possible to create a simple launcher script with WScript/VB that you can double click from Explorer, create shortcut for, add to StartUp etc, that will execute rclone normally as current user, but hidden. Simple and easy to use, but could be a bit too "naive", depending on your use case.. Example: Create a plain text file with extension .wsf, e.g. "RcloneMount.wsf", with the following content (edit in your specific rclone command line, of course):
I have been trying to come up with an easier way of installing Windows and Linux dual booting on my laptop, not necessarily in that order. What we generally have to do is install Windows first, and then install linux and allow GRUB to handle Windows.
So what I'm trying to achive is to find a way to bypass that pesky installation process (windows) and just use an image to directly copy into my drive. This would also allow me to retain my boot manager (GRUB). (not that I cannot restore it afterwards, but it is Microsoft policy to monopolize, in this case denying the existence of other boot managers in the system).
I first obtained a legal copy of Windows 8.1, then proceeded to install it on a virtual machine using VirtualBox. Then, I created an NTFS partition on my GPT partitioned hard drive and copied the contents of the Windows partition from the .vdi image to the newly created partition.
I reckon it should work theoretically because I have all the files required to run Windows. I also think that I should not be the only one who has thought of this, and hence I may be missing something very basic here. Maybe it is already done?
I have little idea how booting works. What I managed to understand is that when you dual-boot Windows and Linux, you chain the windows bootloader to linux's. So what I am trying to achieve is to somehow get rid of the Windows bootloader.
So information like executing winload.exe resides in the BCD file. Now, I think bootmgr itself is executed by syslinux using the chain.c32 module. What I am trying to do is somehow execute the windows bootloader, i.e. winload.exe directly from syslinux (if possible), or modify bootmgr so that it executes winload.exe itself (whose path will be directly in the bootmgr executable) without looking for BCD or anything else.
I have 0.0 idea on what to do from here. For the last 10 days, I have been trying to make changes to BCD and I think I am about to reach success. But that is irrelevant, because what I really want to do is to bypass the Windows Boot Manager altogether.
If you have any idea whether there is a way to execute that winload.efi from the EFI shell (just a guess), or some other modification to GRUB so that it will boot Windows in EFI mode without the chainloader.
The grub4dos right now can chainload a bootloader (like NTLDR or BOOTMGR) because it can act as a replacement of the code contained in a "normal" bootsector (i.e. something like 300 bytes of machine code).
A NT system loader like BOOTMGR has more or less in a single .exe a "real mode" operating system (not entirely unlike DOS) and facilities/tools to parse both plain text and Registry hives, it is not something that can be re-written from scratch easily.
The good guys @ReactOS are working on writing the FREELDR (which aims to be a replacement for the much simpler NTLDR) since YEARS (and believe me there are among the ReactOS programmers some really good and good at it guys).
Depending on how much of an environment WinLoad expects to be present, it might be possible to invoke WinLoad directly. Michael Brown's wimboot invokes the BootMgr PE[1] directly, so it could invoke WinLoad directly, except that WinLoad probably wants more of an environment. You could try it!
To answer your original question, no. Windows cannot be loaded without going through it's own bootloader (in the case of UEFI installs, bootmgfw.efi). This is because Windows expects that bootmanager to be there AND to call winload.efi. If that does not happen, then Windows will crash until you fix the problem. There are many reasons to this (practical and ignorant). Mostly, it is because Microsoft wrote the bootmanager to handle all things (loading the OS, loading the recovery environment, pseudo pre-os environment, and etc). The only way to currently achieve any semblance of sanity is to chain load using Grub-efi.
Additional options such as the DVD drive, external harddrives or network boot should also be visible at that point. The UEFI bootloader usually resides on the \EFI (/boot/efi/) partition. As you have just copied the Windows harddrive image without properly installing Windows, the EFI partition of your current machine might not contain the proper bootloader. Thus it is necessary to
Also note that at least one manufacturer (Lenovo) ships products with a known bug that causes the system to refuse to boot unless the boot loader's name is either "Windows Boot Manager" or "Red Hat Enterprise Linux".
I currently own a Mac and would like to install the Windows operating system on it. However, I want to explore alternative methods as I'd like to avoid using Boot Camp Assistant, the default utility provided by Apple for this purpose. Unfortunately, I'm unaware of any other reliable methods or tools to accomplish this task.
Hence, I kindly request your assistance and expertise in guiding me through the process of installing Windows on my Mac without using Boot Camp Assistant. I understand the importance of compatible software and the potential risks involved in altering the operating system, so I seek lawful and secure methods only.
It is still possible to install Windows 10/8/7 on an Intel based Mac. For dual-boot, you can go with Bootcamp Assistant if it is available on your Mac. If not, then you should first make a Windows bootable USB on Mac and install Windows from the USB drive.
It is possible to use the Windows ARM version with a Parallels' VM, but there are a lot of limitations & restrictions with this option (still requires a proper Windows' license). Both Microsoft and Parallels have some documentation on how this works and the various limitations & restrictions.
Another option would be to use the third party UTM app which uses QEMU at its core which is a free open source machine emulator & virtualizer to mimic different CPU architectures so you can run an OS for a completely different CPU architecture on an Apple Silicon Mac. With UTM you can install the Intel version of Windows OS (you will need a proper Windows' license). However, there are a lot of limitations....the performance will be slow since you are emulating a different system plus running a virtualized instance of an OS as well. Plus you won't have access to any GPU hardware acceleration. For some apps this option may work fine, but for others it will be insufficient.
When you post a question such as yours, it would serve you better to state that you have an Intel or Apple Silicon architecture Mac running a specific operating system version. That reduces the fishing expedition as to what specifically will work in your case.
Microsoft has only publicly sanctioned Parallels for running Windows 11 ARM on Apple Silicon Macs. VMware is now offering a free, non-commercial user license for their Fusion VM client, but very likely will want personal information that at minimum may result in ramped email SPAM. Nothing is truly free with these vendors.
Stack Social has Windows 11 Pro licenses in the $25 range (today) and you should have a Microsoft account because an aspect of the purchase process requires one to sign into a Microsoft account so the license purchase is registered with Microsoft. I purchased Office 2021 for Mac and Office 2021 Professional Plus for Windows through them and never paid more than $35 each.
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