Add essentials.windowsUpdate template that boots Audit Mode, uses the
Windows Update COM API to search/download/install all available updates
(cumulative, .NET, Defender), handles multi-round reboots with Audit
Mode preservation, and compacts the image afterward.
Known issues being worked:
- Audit Mode preservation after update reboot needs verification
- Install takes ~60-90 min with 4GB RAM on slow machines
See wip/win10-update.session.md for full context and TODOs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Images:
- laptopUpstream: bare OS install with AHCI, no templates
- laptopSlim: essentials only (debloat, registry tweaks)
- laptop: full (essentials + all apps)
- win10/win11 images use rec for self-references
CLI:
- preserve recovery partition (4) during disk copy
- expand partition 3 up to partition 4 boundary
- remove VNC CLI flag (use vncDisplay in nix configs instead)
Flake:
- add devShell with vmix alias and PS1 prompt
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Laptop images now use AHCI storage + e1000 network instead of VirtIO.
This fixes "inaccessible boot device" on real hardware — the AHCI→NVMe
driver transition is handled by Windows, unlike VirtIO→NVMe which isn't.
- makeImage: useAHCI flag switches disk to ide-hd and network to e1000
- customizeImage: auto-detects useAHCI from original image, propagates it
- win10/win11 laptop images: useAHCI = true
- vmix run: --ahci flag for running laptop images in QEMU
- generalize: PlainText password tags in OOBE unattend XML
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