[jira] [Closed] (VCL-8) Add option to save Windows images using Sysprep without changing the computer name

["Andy Kurth (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-8?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Andy Kurth closed VCL-8.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

Closing issue. This was created in 2009 and Sysprep is rarely used anymore. It is only used for bare-metal Windows images. Little if any value would be gained by this.

> Add option to save Windows images using Sysprep without changing the computer name
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>                 Key: VCL-8
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/VCL-8
>             Project: VCL
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: database, vcld (backend), web gui (frontend)
>         Environment: Windows XP images
>            Reporter: Andy Kurth
>            Priority: Minor
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> VCL currently has the ability to either use Sysprep or not when saving Windows images. The majority of Windows images use Sysprep.  
> If Sysprep is used, the name of the computer is changed for each computer the image is loaded on.  If Sysprep is not used, the name of computers loaded are the same as the computer used to capture the image.  This is the main reason why Sysprep is currently disabled for a handful of images.  The images don't really need Sysprep disabled, but need the computer name to be the same as the captured computer.  Some applications write the computer name in locations all over the hard drive and in the registry.  These applications fail if an image is saved and reloaded using a different computer name.
> Disabling Sysprep has some drawbacks.  Device drivers are not loaded when the image is loaded.  This problem has been encountered for some images with Sysprep disabled.  The images may fail to load on machines with different hardware.
> It would be beneficial to have an addional option to use Sysprep but not change the computer name.  This is possible by including the name of the computer used to capture the image in the sysprep.inf file.
> This option would need to be reflected in the database and web front end for configuring image options.



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