[MicroWin] Cannot boot into Audit Mode / sysprep

[CrazyWolf13]

Describe the bug

When installing on a VM, syspre is often used to later create templates. Launching sysprep is possible when being at the language selector after the first windows reboot, when pressing Ctrl+Shift+F3

Normally Windows reboots and logs in as Administrator and launches the sysprep tool, but with MicroWin the sysprep does not start instead this error popps up: When pressing OK windows ends up in a reboot loop with an error, windows could not be installed correctly.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Use MicroWin ISO
2. Get to Language selector
3. Press Ctrl+Shift+F3 for sysprep
4. See error
5. Press OK
6. See reboot loop

Expected behavior

Sysprep should be fully working on MicroWin

[CodingWonders]

MicroWin is meant to be fully automated, so you aren't supposed to enter Audit Mode.

What language selector screen do you see?

[CrazyWolf13]

Basically just right after you see the White UI, after the first reboot press Ctrl+Shift+F3

Audit Mode is needed to set up VirtIO drivers etc. and generalisation

[CrazyWolf13]

No, sir, I aint gonna download some random mediafire file, without even getting an explanation what it does.

[CrazyWolf13]

@ChrisTitusTech Is this some sort of scam? Some random files from Russia ?

Funny the zip contains the following files: And the filename indeed seems to be linked to malware: https://any.run/report/b127de888f09ce23937c12b7fccfa47a8f48312b0e43eb59b6243f665c6d366a/1f3b42b6-9353-46c5-bdcd-35a8e0d9991c

[CodingWonders]

Is this some sort of scam? Some random files from Russia ?

@CrazyWolf13, probably. Don't run it - it could be an infostealer

[CrazyWolf13]

@ChrisTitusTech It's probably worth somewhat blocking them here, before they get real people to download stuff.

Yep it's a google chrome infostealer -> https://app.any.run/tasks/1f3b42b6-9353-46c5-bdcd-35a8e0d9991c

[CodingWonders]

Yep it's a google chrome infostealer

@CrazyWolf13, I'm fed up with these pieces of malware. Going back to the starting topic, VirtIO can be downloaded manually, but we could add VM support. The underpinnings of the unattended answer file (Christoph Schneegans' generator) contain virtual machine support.

Perhaps we could add that in the future

[CrazyWolf13]

Oh that seems awesome!

Basically I mostly just use it to do the following:

• Run windows updates
• Run MS Store Updates
• (Remove nearly all applications(bloat))
• Run disk cleanup (+defrag)
• Reboot

To get a freshly updated as small as possible VM template.

But going back to the cause, is there any specific reason, the sysprep did not load on startup ?

[CodingWonders]

But going back to the cause, is there any specific reason, the sysprep did not load on startup ?

No idea