On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 04:20:35PM +0200, Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) wrote: > From: "Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak@xxxxxxxxx> > > The presence of 'InstallFrom' in the XML breaks unattended installation > for Windows 8 > and its not needed for Windows 7 now that we require > product key. 'ProductKey' is expected in different locations in the XML > by Windows 8 but same location works for Windows 7 as well. All of this is not really accurate. Win8 seems to require Microsoft-Windows-Setup/UserData/ProductKey/Key to be set, which seems to be exclusive with using Microsoft-Windows-Setup/ImageInstall/OSImage/InstallFrom/MetaData (or at least some care needs to be taken when using both together). As letting the Windows installer decide on which OSImage to use from the product key rather than hardcoding use of the first OSImage on the ISO seems more robust, we switch from InstallFrom installation image selection to ProductKey installation image selection. Also, ProductKey is not expected in a different location for Windows 8, but there are 2 different locations where you can put it with different purposes, the one at Microsoft-Windows-Setup/UserData/ProductKey/Key is used for installation image selection (ie as a /IMAGE/INDEX replacement). The ProductKey that was set for Win7 is used for Windows activation (which you have to do within 30 days of installation), so we should set it as well in all cases if this does not break win8 unattended (I don't think I've tested that). Christophe
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