[virt-tools-list] [PATCH 6/7] Fill out more Windows ISO signatures

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:59:47PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:43 PM, Daniel P. Berrange
> <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 07:53:03PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote:
> >> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
> >>
> >> ACK except for:
> >>
> >> > @@ -279,13 +310,13 @@
> >> >
> >> >     <media arch="i386">
> >> >       <iso>
> >> > -        <volume-id>.*G.*RMC.*</volume-id>
> >> > +        <volume-id>GRMCULFRER</volume-id>
> >> >         <publisher-id>MICROSOFT CORPORATION</publisher-id>
> >> >       </iso>
> >> >     </media>
> >> >     <media arch="x86_64">
> >> >       <iso>
> >> > -        <volume-id>.*G.*RMC.*X.*</volume-id>
> >> > +        <volume-id>GRMCULXFRER</volume-id>
> >> >         <publisher-id>MICROSOFT CORPORATION</publisher-id>
> >>
> >> Are you sure about making these volume IDs more specific rather than generic?
> >
> > As we've seen, the Windows' ISOs volume IDs are rather bizarre. I think
> > that using a very generic regex runs a risk of matching bad ISOs. So my
> > idea is that we should only use precise volume ID matches. To counterbalance
> > this, my intention is to download all possible ISOs from MSDN, so we can
> > discover the full set of valid volume IDs & expand the strict matches.
> 
> OK, but keep in mind that volume IDs (seem to) differ with
> region/country sometimes. The value you put there now will not match
> the volume-id of the ISO I have: GSP1RMCPRXFRER_EN_DVD. :) Also IIRC I
> changed that value to be more generic when matching didn't work for
> someone (Christophe?).

If you have any Windows ISOs, then please send me the full output of
'isoinfo -d -i $ISOFILE > $ISOFILE.txt', preferrably where $ISOFILE
is the official filename Microsoft used for the image, so I can
incorporate it into the test suite & adapt the regexes.

Regards,
Daniel
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