It’s a script I’ve been using often but I forgot to write a post about this
In VMware ESXi copying thin provisioned VMs using the web interface or console consumes a lot of time and disk IO as it defaults to allocate the new VM as a thick provisioned one.
So I created a special script that avoids default copy operations and copy files as you normally would expect.
https://git.mananet.net/manatails/vmware-thin-mover
Screenshot:
I hope this simple script saves you much of your precious time.
Those are the commands I used to create custom kernel packages for Debian/Ubuntu based systems.
1. Install required packages
sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses-dev bison flex libssl-dev libelf-dev
2. Extract source code and import config from current kernel
cd linux-5.x.x cp -v /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config make olddefconfig
3. Edit .config file and set the following variables
CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS = "" CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=n
Building without black SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS will fail the build.
Building with debug info will take much more time and space
Compile code and generate deb package, add LOCALVERSION if you want to add a kernel suffix
make clean make -j8 deb-pkg LOCALVERSION=-custom
I’ve been following some threads about installing Windows 7 on pure EFI systems.
Then I found out about VgaShim which I thought to be the best solution.
But the project was deserted a long time ago, it was buggy and was not compatible with my newest devices
After playing around with OVMF firmware and some hardware, I came up with many fixes and improvements.
I decided to take this a bit further and forked my own project named UefiSeven
https://git.mananet.net/manatails/uefiseven
It aims to be the straightforward solution for installing Windows 7 on UEFI class 3 devices.
-Easy to install
-Informative logs
-Configurable verbose mode
-Serial debug console from VGA ROM for debugging
-Experimental, hack-ish support for non-1024×768 capable screens
Usage Instructions:
1. Prepare Windows 7 installation USB Drive
2. Rename bootx64.efi at (UsbDrive)\EFI\Boot\ to bootx64.original.efi
3. Unpack bootx64.efi from UefiSeven archive and copy it to (UsbDrive)\EFI\Boot\
4. (Optional) Copy UefiSeven.verbose to the same directory to enable verbose mode
5. Install Windows
6. Rename bootmgfw.efi at (HDD)\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\ to bootmgfw.original.efi
7. Copy UefiSeven bootx64.efi to (HDD)\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi using EFI shell
Download:
https://git.mananet.net/manatails/uefiseven/-/releases
PoC
Windows 7 running on a Samsung Galaxy Book 12 (Kaby Lake SoC), 2160×1440 screen with native 1024×768 GOP support
Windows 7 running on a GPD MicroPC (Gemini Lake SoC), 720×1280 rotated portrait screen holding 1024×768 framebuffer (Glitchy but useful enough to complete the setup)
I hope this makes life easier for many people who do not want to accept Windows 10 tyranny.