Three things, all in service of putting Proxmox in a VM that can still hand a
GPU to its own guests, and of a Windows VM whose profile survives its OS disk.
pci.viommu.enable emits `-device intel-iommu,intremap=on,caching-mode=on` and
forces kernel-irqchip=split, which interrupt remapping requires. Without an
IOMMU of its own a guest cannot bind a passed-through device to vfio-pci, so
it can never forward one on. The device leads the command line because QEMU
realizes devices in order and intel-iommu must precede what it translates.
pci.vgaPassthrough (default true, so nothing changes for existing VMs) makes
x-vga=on optional. It was forced on the first passthrough device, which is
wrong for a card the guest only forwards onward: it claims the VGA path the
emulated console adapter needs.
customizeImage gains extraDisk, a blank disk attached for the Audit Mode boot
and emitted as the derivation's `data` output. generalize uses it for dataDisk
and profilesDirectory, so the disk is partitioned and the profile relocated
under OOBE in the build VM. That is what removes the need for delayOobeRun --
previously the volume ProfilesDirectory names could not exist until the image
reached real hardware. A second output rather than a directory keeps ${image}
meaning the OS qcow2 for every existing consumer.
generalize also picks up staticIP and profilesDirectory.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0117qMyjpuXsjpVAcpJbFD8g
- Switch MAS from /HWID to /Z-Windows (TSforge ZeroCID) which is
hardware-independent and survives VM migration
- Re-install product key and restart SPP service before TSforge
to restore licensing state after sysprep
- Add nicModel option to customizeImage and generalize for images
without VirtIO drivers
- Update MAS activation script to latest version
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Allows overriding the QEMU NIC model during builds (e.g. e1000 for
images without VirtIO drivers). Enables MAS activation on upstream
images that lack VirtIO network drivers.
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Copy Xauthority to a world-readable temp file so nix build users
(nixbld*) can authenticate to X11. Add --option sandbox relaxed so
__noChroot derivations can access the X11 socket and xauth file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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SDL display:
- try SDL, auto-fallback to headless if it fails (no crash)
- SDL_VIDEODRIVER=x11 to avoid wayland socket path issues
- suppress XDG_RUNTIME_DIR warnings
Disk copy:
- zap-all before writing to clear old partition tables
- delete recovery partition (4) before resizing partition 3
- use parted resizepart (preserves partition GUID for BCD)
- remote: nix-shell for sgdisk/parted/ntfsresize on target
- remote: lz4 compression for faster streaming
- remote: pv progress bar with disk size
- -y/--yes flag to skip confirmation prompt
Generalize:
- delay-oobe-run=true defers OOBE + activation to real hardware
- clean cached Autounattend from Windows\Panther before sysprep
- taskkill sysprep.exe on first login (CopyProfile artifact)
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CLI:
- `vmix run <qcow2>` boots image with QEMU (SDL if DISPLAY, snapshot mode)
- --generalize supports delay-oobe-run=true to defer OOBE + activation
to first boot on real hardware (for physical disk deployments)
Templates:
- essentials.virtioDrivers: installs VirtIO drivers only (no guest agent)
used in laptop bundle for network access during Office download
- generalize: delayOobeRun flag controls sysprep /shutdown vs /reboot
delays OOBE, user creation and HWID activation to target device
Build:
- suppress XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and homeless-shelter warnings in SDL mode
- remove invalid ICH9-LMB global properties
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