sanbarrow.com ~ View topic - the AS-IF stunt

mad scientist Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 651

Watch
http://sanbarrow.com/moa21/moa-as-if-stunt.zip

What is it about ?

We go to any box and start the installed system as a VM and write changes into a REDO-log.

Will that boot ?
Well - surely not always - very likely we will run into a BSOD on Windows.
But keep in mind - we write into a REDO - we don't change anything on that box.
So we can do a first boot into another copy of MOA - yes that works! - and patch the system. Would be nice to use the Converter for this but I haven't got that working.
At the moment we can use the FixIDE-patch and the FixVMScsi-plugin.
I am working on the patchman to have one single tool for this without the need of the Converter but that is work in progress.
Maybe we can also use ideas from the Life View project ...

exactly. this is stuff which makes me happy.

alas i am too skillless on windoze to contribute for a design/cool implementation *g*

any others out to close a gap ?

Lazy boy - can't you post with -v Cool

What are you talking about ?

Do you mean a GUI to make that easier ?
Well - I will soon go on with the patchman ...

I plan to do this after I created the rawdisk and the snapshot:

check if the VM uses the snapshot - if all looks ok I boot into that VM from physical CD - that's the CD with MOA - we boot into "cmd" - mode and run patchman.
At that time we will already know if we need to patch for VMware-IDE or VMware-SCSI. Select target-root in patchman and highlight the appropriate patchnumber. Execute ... and clean up.
Then we can exit MOA and next boot goes into harddisk.

Wow - soon we will be able to do that stunt with just a handful of clicks - maybe 5 minutes after boot.
Cool - nobody has done that before Cool

of course i had a look on the video !!!
excellent "!!!

(AND on the last popup *g*)