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Windows buildlet images

Windows images are built by creating and configuring VMs hosted on AWS a1.metal instances then saving the image manually.

Build and test the Windows builder image

  • Prepare the linux QEMU host image by following the instructions in env/windows-arm64/aws.

  • Create an a1.metal instance (or other instance that supports KVM) in AWS.

  • Download a Windows 10 ARM64 image.

    • Convert vhdx images to qcow2 via the following command:

      qemu-image convert -O qcow2 win.vhdx win.qcow2

  • SSH to your instance tunneling port 5903, and run win10-arm64.sh script to boot the Windows VM.

    • You may need to stop the current VM: sudo systemctl stop qemu

  • VNC to the tunneled port 5903.

  • Open the device control panel, and use the “Search for Drivers” button to search the virtio drive D: for drivers.

    • Matching drivers will be automatically installed.
    • This is necessary for networking to work on Windows in qemu.

  • Download the startup.ps1 script to the Windows instance, and run in PowerShell. Check thoroughly for errors.

    • Alternatively, you can modify win10-arm64.sh to forward ssh access to the VM, and run PowerShell in the CLI, which is a bit easier than through VNC.

  • Once the image is complete, download the image to your workstation and upload to s3://go-builder-data.

    • You can find the appropriate the S3 path referenced in env/windows-arm64/aws/prepare_image.sh.

  • Re-run packer to build an AMI with your updated Windows image.

Notes

  • QEMU_EFI.fd is from the qemu-efi-aarch64 Debian package, found at /usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd. It can be regenerated with the following command:

    dd if=/dev/zero of=QEMU_EFI.fd bs=1M count=64
dd if=/usr/share/qemu-efi-aarch64/QEMU_EFI.fd of=QEMU_EFI.fd bs=1M count=64 conv=notrunc

  • QEMU_VARS.fd stores saved EFI state when booting a VM. It's generated via the following command:

    dd if=/dev/zero of=QEMU_VARS.fd bs=1M count=64

  • The latest virtio driver image can be fetched from: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/virtio-win.iso

  • win10-arm64.sh is hard-coded to run with 4 processors instead of the 16 available on an a1.metal instance. Higher numbers of processors are causing a fatal CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT error from interrupt requests not arriving in time. qemu-system-x86_64 has a workaround for this. We're still investigating how to increase this on aarch64.

Packaging

  • Create a directory named macmini-windows, and ensure it contains the following:

    macmini-windows/UTM.app (from https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases/v2.1.2/download/UTM.dmg)
macmini-windows/sysroot-macos-arm64 (from https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/suites/3210727480/artifacts/74269055)
macmini-windows/Images/QEMU_EFI.fd (from steps above)
macmini-windows/Images/virtio.iso (from https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/virtio-win.iso)
macmini-windows/Images/win10.qcow2 (from above)

  • Tar the directory:

    tar cvJf "windows-arm64.$(date +%+4Y%m%d).tar.xz" macmini-windows

  • Upload to GCS for safekeeping:

    gsutil cp windows-arm64.DATE_FROM_ABOVE.tar.xz gs://go-builder-data/windows-arm64.DATE_FROM_ABOVE.tar.xz

  • On your target host, untar the directory in your home directory. See x/build/cmd/runqemubuildlet for more information.