master-stable build of december 16th 2021 and message uivm unconfigured

[Marco Zaro]

hi , just tried to install this version , everything went well but at the top of the openxt interface appear UIVM unconfigured...what does mean?

[Jason Andryuk]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2022 at 11:20 AM Marco Zaro <zaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi , just tried to install this version , everything went well but at the top of the openxt interface appear UIVM unconfigured...what does mean?

vGlass supports setting text in that banner. In the default case,
that text string is unset and "unconfigured" is displayed.

If you do `xec-vm -n uivm set long_form_vg UIVM` you can set the
string to UIVM instead. There is also short_form_vg which is used if
the long string is too long to be displayed.

You can also hide the banner by doing:
```
setenforce 0
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=mil.af.secureview.disman
/mil/af/secureview/disman mil.af.secureview.disman.setBannerHeight
uint32:0
```

Regards,
Jason

[Marco Zaro]

many thank's , just for my info , what is Vglass ? in openxt 9.0.2 isn't there

is an extra feature or just a way to display a banner on the top of the screen ?

[Marco Zaro]

Awesome, thanks!

[Marco Zaro]

and what about the master stable sstate ? are there any difference between this and the master stable of december 16th ?

[Jason Andryuk]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 10:57 AM Marco Zaro <zaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> many thank's , just for my info , what is Vglass ? in openxt 9.0.2 isn't there
> is an extra feature or just a way to display a banner on the top of the screen ?

vGlass is the new graphics software. It replaced the older surfman.
9.0.2 still used surfman, but I don't think it had a banner option.

[Marco Zaro]

one last question: in your opinion is better openxt build december 16th or v9.0.2 to run windows 10 client 21h2?

because on december 16th there is no more xc tools and i need it to download the v10 from another repository but on a lenovo m920q , setting up a vm with 6 gb of ram and 4 vcpu is not very fast and mouse is a little bit sluggish (UEFI in bios disabled)

openxt needs to be installed with uefi completely disable? because i remember and old thread from Rich Persuad that say i will need to disable it...

many thank's

[Jason Andryuk]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 11:01 AM Marco Zaro <zaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> and what about the master stable sstate ? are there any difference between this and the master stable of december 16th ?

I think master-stable is built with the last OpenXT code change, and
master-stable-sstate gets rebuilt nightly when the OpenEmbedded
(non-OpenXT) layer dependencies change.

So OpenXT-specific code-wise, they are the same. But the sstate one
will have bug fixes in underlying dependencies.

Regards,
Jason

[Jason Andryuk]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 11:10 AM Marco Zaro <zaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> one last question: in your opinion is better openxt build december 16th or v9.0.2 to run windows 10 client 21h2?
> because on december 16th there is no more xc tools and i need it to download the v10 from another repository but on a lenovo m920q , setting up a vm with 6 gb of ram and 4 vcpu is not very fast and mouse is a little bit sluggish (UEFI in bios disabled)

I am not sure why the openxt tools went away. I think the builder
needed changes for building the vGlass display drivers, and they were
not implemented. But I am just guessing.

The v9 tools don't have the correct drivers for v10/vGlass.

> openxt needs to be installed with uefi completely disable? because i remember and old thread from Rich Persuad that say i will need to disable it...

OpenXT can boot on hardware with UEFI enabled, but Secure Boot must be disabled.

A change for VMs to support UEFI and SecureBoot recently landed.

Regards,
Jason

[Marco Zaro]

Hi , i have tried many times to install xc tools but everytime the vm gets destroyed...i'll try to explain:

install w10 21h2

then i follow this:

First, open a command prompt with right click and "Run as Administrator". Run the following:

bcdedit /set testsigning on

Then, to import the certificate, open a command prompt with right click and "Run as Administrator". Use the cd command to go where the certificate is, run the following (and reboot):

certutil -addstore -f "Root" developer.cer
certutil -addstore -f "TrustedPublisher" developer.cer

developer.cer was downloaded from https://openxt.ainfosec.com/OpenXT/certificates/windows/developer.cer

then i reboot the vm and then i inserted the cd with xc tools iso downloaded from

https://openxt.ainfosec.com/OpenXT/auto/windows/openxt-wintools-10.iso

i run setup .exe , screen goes blank and nothing goes on.

if i force stop the vm and restart i only get the blu flag of windows and nothing else...sometimes i see hard disk activity

i force stop the vm , delete the virtual hardrive and rebuilt from skratch the vm , instead of run the setup.exe i tried to run the .bat for unattended installation , vm autorestart but again same problem.....

[Marco Zaro]

on openxt v9.0.2 i haven't found these problem....

[Jason Andryuk]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 12:02 PM Marco Zaro <zaro...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> on openxt v9.0.2 i haven't found these problem....
>
> Il giorno giovedì 20 gennaio 2022 alle 17:59:24 UTC+1 Marco Zaro ha scritto:
>>
>> Hi , i have tried many times to install xc tools but everytime the vm gets destroyed...i'll try to explain:
>> install w10 21h2
>> then i follow this:
>> First, open a command prompt with right click and "Run as Administrator". Run the following:
>>
>> bcdedit /set testsigning on
>>
>> Then, to import the certificate, open a command prompt with right click and "Run as Administrator". Use the cd command to go where the certificate is, run the following (and reboot):
>>
>> certutil -addstore -f "Root" developer.cer
>> certutil -addstore -f "TrustedPublisher" developer.cer
>>
>> developer.cer was downloaded from https://openxt.ainfosec.com/OpenXT/certificates/windows/developer.cer
>>
>> then i reboot the vm and then i inserted the cd with xc tools iso downloaded from
>> https://openxt.ainfosec.com/OpenXT/auto/windows/openxt-wintools-10.iso
>> i run setup .exe , screen goes blank and nothing goes on.
>> if i force stop the vm and restart i only get the blu flag of windows and nothing else...sometimes i see hard disk activity
>>
>> i force stop the vm , delete the virtual hardrive and rebuilt from skratch the vm , instead of run the setup.exe i tried to run the .bat for unattended installation , vm autorestart but again same problem.....

Hi,

I don't use windows much, so I can't give much help. I have found the
drivers to be finicky the few times I used them. The last time I
tried with drivers from Windows Update, I found them BSOD the VM.

I wonder if this is the fix for that:
https://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/win-pv-devel/2021-10/msg00000.html

This looks to be that latest OpenXT build, and it has the vGlass
display drivers:
https://openxt.ainfosec.com/OpenXT/auto/windows/9.0.0/OpenXT-Tools-9.0.0-19-checked.msi

However, that .msi doesn't seem to have been built with the
aforementioned patch, so it may BSOD as well.

Hopefully someone who uses the Windows drivers more will chime in.

One suggestion is to do an initial install of Windows and then copy
the vhd in /storage/disks. Then if the PV drivers mess it up, you can
just copy that base image.

Regards,
Jason

[Marco Zaro]

thank's i think i will stick with openxt 9.0.2 which runs fine w7 and w10 , not to mention tools are already inside that build and i can easily install

[Marco Zaro]

i will open a separated thread to see if someone could reply