Good day,
I’ll adjust the process then, as to keep the checksum between the binary and the compilation comparable.
Have a nice day,
Ego
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You mean referencing and checking the checksums of 7z before executing these? That would be good.
Good day,
I was actually refering to the compiled binaries checksum. What I meant was that I shall change the entire process in a way that is not going to necessitate the inclusion of these binaries while still allowing for both the premade and the self-compiled installer to be the exact same including the icon.
Have a nice day,
Ego
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Working on fixing the Stop - Stop button. Nothing happens when its clicked. However, the smaller advanced button that opens the Virutalbox interface works.
The biggest issue is getting grips on Windows logs and debug 
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Start-Stop button fixed. Had to update Whonix VM names. Whonix-Workstation → Whonix-Workstation-XFCE
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I know the files that need to be altered to change the installer name. Tested by have not createed a PR yet
Currently 'Install Whonix.exe'
Any preference for file names? I prefer the first one.
whonix-installer.exe
install-whonix.exe
anything else?
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Very good.
Looks like we skipped testing and went live already.
If there are any issues, we can redirect users to the usual Whonix ™ for Windows, macOS, Linux inside VirtualBox
Which versions of Windows are tested, supported?
(We still can keep versions which aren’t tested by developer (perhaps 7, 8?) listed there if they are working.)
(I’ve removed XP and Vista from page title - since these are end of life by Microsoft. Dunno if we’d be using a significant amount of users due to that or gain more due to more simplicity.)
Therefore there not much testers only about https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Windows_Testers_Only_Version
Could you move https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Windows_Testers_Only_Version please to
or so?
(I am hesitate to move pages by myself - that clears mediawiki history and taking away all edit log history. So I’d prefer if the most major writer of a page did that. [Doesn’t apply to pages by me, since my credit is already “complete”.])
When done, please also add a link here:
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Tested Windows 10 only. We could support both 10, 8 . I’ll have to get an 8 image. Would be good to test on different releases anyways. Support for Windows 7 for a little while since it reaches EOL in a few months.
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/windows-7-end-of-life-guide
Microsoft recently announced that it will officially begin the Windows 7 end of life phase on Jan. 14, 2020. On that day, the company will stop supporting Windows 7 on laptops and desktops, and will no longer patch it with security updates.
Done.
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Verify_the_Whonix_Windows_Installer
Done.
https://www.whonix.org/w/index.php?title=Verify_the_Whonix_images&diff=50613&oldid=43931
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Downloaded and installed from Whonix.org.
- First time extracting had an error. My guess would be Norton antivirus or Windows defender interrupted the process which cause the issue? Started the extraction over and everything went fine. Repeated the Download/installation a few more time with no issues.
- When installing from Whonix.org, Windows automatically restarts (to finish installation?) This only happened after build when:
- Norton quarantined
Whonix.exeat the start of build and the installer obviously wouldn’t work. But a file is created .\Output\InstallWhonix.exe that works to install Whonix when executed. However, when run this also restarted Windows the same as above. Thewhonix-installer.exedid not do this.(Windows restart)
- Norton quarantined
https://github.com/Whonix/Whonix-Windows-Installer/blob/master/config.txt
;!@Install@!UTF-8!
Title="Whonix Installer"
RunProgram="Output\InstallWhonix.exe"
ExtractTitle="Extracting Whonix Installer"
GUIMode="1"
;!@InstallEnd@!
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False alarm. I take that back.
Just saw you moved Windows_Testers_Only_Version to Verify the Whonix Windows Installer. Wiki history intact:
(Either false memory by me or mediawiki improved that during an upgrade.)
A new VirtulaBox version is available. I’ll create an new installer and test when I get a chance. VirtualBox 6.0.12
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Not high priority atm.
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There is also a newer Whonix stable release already.
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Had an issue when importing Kicksecure ova image in VirtualBox. The error message isn’t all that helpfull.
Code: E_INVALIDARG (0x80070057)
I previously used https://whonix.org/wiki/Dev/Whonix-Windows-Installer to install VitrualBox and Whonix. Reinstalled VitrualBox and was able to import the Kicksecure ova.
If I remove Kicksecure ova image and run Whonix installer again, then try to import the Kicksecure ova image again the same thing happens.
Related:
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Could you try to import using the command line please? Hopefully that will give more debug output.
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Maybe a version mismatch? Windows installer VirtualBox version is outdated. And Kicksecure was created with latest stable version of VirtualBox.
Maybe updating VirtualBox would solve this?
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Command line import command from Whonix ™ for VirtualBox with Xfce footnotes (expanded):
eula show:
/path/to/vboxmanage import /path/to/ova --vsys 0 --eula show
eula accept
/path/to/vboxmanage import /path/to/ova --vsys 0 --eula accept
Perhaps --vsys 0 can or must be dropped since only a single VM and not two VMs in one ova.
#18343 (Unable to import OVA with error NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG) – Oracle VM VirtualBox says this could be an out of disk space issue. Do [all] disks have enough disk space? Let’s say two or three times as much as ova size (even with VirtualBox VMs on drive D: VirtualBox might do extraction/temporary files on drive C:, dunno).
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Created a new Whonix Installer with the latest VirtualBox version (quick and dirty) and had no issues. Looks like a miss-match.
Still want me to try imporing Kicksecure (CLI) with older Whonix installer?
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We just have to know about this and tell users to upgrade VirtualBox.
No need.
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