dd command to creat an .iso from the win7 cdrom please

[yre...@riseup.net]

dd command to creat an .iso from the win7 cdrom please

I'm trying to create a win7 HVM and am getting stuck at the magic
glowing windows logo and I discovered in the reference doc's eventually:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2488

only problem, Is I don't think the original doc, actually gives the dd
command arguments etc, and somehow I'm not linuxy enough to know it.


2)
BTW, any suggested amount of RAM or HD space to allocate in the HVM for
win7 ?

3)
Lastly, I don't think I understand step #8
"When windows is successfully installed, disable driver signing with
bcedit (see install docs)" .....



.....if these docs are meant
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-appvms/
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-appvms/ (btw there seem to be two
different pages loading with the same URL )

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/hvm/

I don't see any reference to bcedit or how/where I would disable
driver signing ....sigh

[David W. Hodgins]

On Wed, 31 Jan 2018 22:03:03 -0500, <yre...@riseup.net> wrote:

> dd command to creat an .iso from the win7 cdrom please

dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/user/win7.iso bs=1M

> BTW, any suggested amount of RAM or HD space to allocate in the HVM for
> win7 ?

That I don't know.

> I don't see any reference to bcedit or how/where I would disable
> driver signing ....sigh

It's a windows command. See
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/bcdedit--set

Regards, Dave Hodgins

[pixel fairy]

you need the device entry of the cdrom, usually /dev/sr0 or /dev/cdrom. if you mount the cdrom, and type "mount" you should it in the first column. its been a long time since doing this. you can also download the windows 7 installer from microsoft here, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7

the first command below makes the iso file, with sudo meaning "so this as root" (kinda like administrator in windows) and the second gives the iso back to you, cause otherwise its owned by root.

sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=windows7.iso
sudo chown user.user windows7.iso

[yre...@riseup.net]

nevermind .........

:)

seems to be up and running with cirrus driver
https://support.hidemyass.com/hc/en-us/articles/202723596-How-to-disable-Driver-Signing-check-on-Windows

re:bcedit

[yre...@riseup.net]

btw, what behaviour do I expect if windows-tools are probably
installed? I've no idea, e.g. how does one increase the screen size
or is there a plain english version of what windows-tool does ?

probably another newb question

[yre...@riseup.net]

I did qvm-start win7 --install-windows-tools
--custom-config=/tmp/win7.conf

then

qvm-start win7 worked fine , but .....