v0.5.8: Windows ISOs just work (HTTP sanboot) + Storage UX

Windows boot, the "less is more" way. Windows ISOs now boot via iPXE
HTTP sanboot of the raw image — iPXE exposes the unmodified ISO as an
emulated CD backed by on-demand HTTP range reads, and Windows Setup
boots from it. This replaces the wimboot+SMB chain, which needed an SMB
server the host often can't provide (:445 collisions), served in-ISO
files via an ISO9660 lookup that failed on UDF-only Win11 ISOs, and was
gated behind a Settings toggle the WebUI never even exposed (so Windows
never booted). Now it needs only the HTTP port — works in any
environment, SMB or not — and nothing is injected into Windows (no
httpdisk.sys, no test certs, no trust-store changes; fully within the
project's hard rules).

- iso-store/store.rs: WindowsPe boot entry -> BootKind::SanBootIso of the
  raw iso/<id>.iso (render_entry already emits `sanboot --no-describe`).
- iso-store/introspect.rs: broaden Windows detection for UDF-only Win10/11
  ISOs — UTF-16LE markers (boot.wim/bootmgr/install.wim/microsoft),
  extra ASCII markers, and a filename heuristic, since their volume
  labels are cryptic and filenames are UTF-16. + unit tests.
- http-api/ipxe_script.rs: Windows installers submenu shows whenever a
  Windows ISO is present — no toggle, no "disabled in Settings".
- webui: dashboard no longer flags Windows ISOs (they boot now); the
  generic large-ISO warning reworded to read sensibly for genuinely
  non-bootable images (e.g. VMware VCSA appliance bundles).

Storage UX:
- Available images listed alphabetically by filename.
- Upload gains a Cancel button (aborts the chunk + discards the partial).
- beforeunload warning while an upload is in flight.

263 tests pass, clippy clean. NOTE: actual Windows boot is validated on
real hardware — code/script/range-serving are validated here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <[email protected]>
This commit is contained in:
Miles Ward
2026-06-04 21:24:15 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 4.8
parent ac433b30e9
commit 9fc9a9a1af
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@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ async fn log_recent_returns_buffered_lines() {
}
#[tokio::test]
async fn windows_iso_renders_clean_wimboot_script_with_no_trust_store_writes() {
async fn windows_iso_renders_clean_sanboot_script_with_no_trust_store_writes() {
// Synthesize an ISO with a Windows volume label + the sources/boot.wim
// sentinel so introspection labels it WindowsPe with has_boot_wim.
let mut buf = vec![0u8; 32 * 2048];
@@ -763,38 +763,35 @@ async fn windows_iso_renders_clean_wimboot_script_with_no_trust_store_writes() {
"introspection should detect sources/boot.wim sentinel"
);
// The boot entry should be a wimboot kind with the canonical 5-file
// chain documented in the LinusTechTips iPXE-Windows guide.
// v0.5.8: Windows boots via iPXE HTTP sanboot of the raw ISO — no SMB,
// no extraction, no in-ISO file serving, no operator toggle. The boot
// entry is a `san_boot_iso` kind pointing at the raw image.
let entry = &meta["boot_entries"][0];
assert_eq!(entry["kind"]["kind"], "wimboot");
let files = entry["kind"]["files"].as_array().unwrap();
let names: Vec<&str> = files.iter().map(|f| f[0].as_str().unwrap()).collect();
assert!(names.contains(&"bootmgr"));
assert!(names.contains(&"bootmgr.efi"));
assert!(names.contains(&"bcd"));
assert!(names.contains(&"boot.sdi"));
assert!(names.contains(&"boot.wim"));
assert_eq!(entry["kind"]["kind"], "san_boot_iso");
let iso_url = entry["kind"]["iso_url"].as_str().unwrap();
assert!(
std::path::Path::new(iso_url)
.extension()
.is_some_and(|e| e.eq_ignore_ascii_case("iso")),
"sanboot should target the raw ISO, got: {iso_url}"
);
// Render the entry script and verify:
// 1. It uses wimboot
// 2. All 5 files are referenced via `initrd --name`
// 3. NO trust-store / driver / testsigning operations slip in
// 1. It uses `sanboot` against the raw ISO over HTTP
// 2. NO trust-store / driver / testsigning operations slip in
let entry_id = entry["id"].as_str().unwrap();
let url = format!("/boot/{entry_id}.ipxe");
let (s, body) = get(&app, &url).await;
assert_eq!(s, StatusCode::OK);
let script = String::from_utf8(body).unwrap();
assert!(script.contains("kernel "), "missing kernel line:\n{script}");
assert!(
script.contains("ipxe/wimboot"),
"missing wimboot loader:\n{script}"
script.contains("sanboot"),
"missing sanboot line:\n{script}"
);
assert!(
script.contains(&format!("/{iso_url}")),
"sanboot should reference the raw ISO url:\n{script}"
);
for tag in ["bootmgr", "bootmgr.efi", "bcd", "boot.sdi", "boot.wim"] {
assert!(
script.contains(&format!("initrd --name {tag}")),
"missing `initrd --name {tag}` line:\n{script}"
);
}
// Hard guarantees we never want to see in any client-facing script.
let lower = script.to_lowercase();
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