I am running Hyper-V on Windows 8.1 Enterprise. I migrated my laptop's Windows 7 OS to VM and was able to boot to it in Hyper-V. I cloned my laptop first then sysprepped it with an unattend script and a batch file. The unattend install works
and the batch file runs during Windows setup on my bare metal laptop. When I do the same in Hyper-V, the batch file never runs.
Here's the process I took to migrate my laptop to VM and what I did to get it to run in Hyper-V to see if something along the way I messed something up:
-Used dism to capture the image.
-Applied the image to a vhdx.
-Attach the vhdx in Disk Management.
-Copied my unattend.bat, unattend.xml, and setup.bat scripts to the C: drive of the vhdx.
-Loaded the SYSTEM HIVE from the vhdx in Regedit.
-Changed the "Start" DWORD from 3 to 0 in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/test/ControlSet001/services/atapi", "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/test/ControlSet001/services/intelide", and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/test/ControlSet001/services/msahci"
-Unloaded the SYSTEM HIVE and detached the vhdx.
-Used Hyper-V to create a Generation 1 VM. Used the vhdx as the disk.
-Booted the machine up with error, but got rid of it by running a repair on Windows.
Here are the scripts that I am running during sysprep:
setup.bat:
echo. >> "C:\Windows\Setup\scripts\SetupComplete.cmd"
echo. >> "C:\Windows\Setup\scripts\SetupComplete.cmd"
echo wmic useraccount where name='Administrator' rename 'admin' >> "C:\Windows\Setup\scripts\SetupComplete.cmd"
msdtc -uninstall
msdtc -install
net start msdtc
c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep /oobe /generalize /reboot /unattend:c:\unattend.xml
reg add HKLM\System\Setup /v CmdLine /t REG_SZ /d "C:\unattend.bat" /f
shutdown /f /r /t 0
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The unattend.bat just names the machine:
@echo off
setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion
cd windows\panther
set /p Variable=Enter The Computer Name:
(for /F "delims=" %%a in (unattend.xml) do (
set "line=%%a"
set "newLine=!line:ComputerName>=!"
if "!newLine!" neq "!line!" (
set "newLine=<ComputerName>%Variable%</ComputerName>"
)
echo !newLine!
)) > newunattend.xml
copy /y newunattend.xml unattend.xml && del newunattend.xml
"%WINDIR%\System32\oobe\windeploy.exe", 0, True
cd\
del unattend.bat
del "windows\panther\unattend.xml"
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The unattend.bat never runs in the VM, but does run on the bare metal laptop. Can anyone figure out why my script won't run? I have also did a clean install in Hyper-V then sysprepped it, but the script never runs either. Thanks.
Note: .bat files don't run, but .vbs do run, but does rename the machine in VM.
