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
8 changed files with 189 additions and 65 deletions
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@@ -85,12 +85,37 @@ pub fn introspect(path: &Path) -> IntrospectionReport {
read_total += n;
}
// `sources/boot.wim` is the definitive Windows-install-media marker
// when the ISO exposes ASCII (ISO9660/Joliet) names. `contains_ascii`
// is case-insensitive, so one form covers BOOT.WIM / boot.wim and the
// backslash variant.
if contains_ascii(&haystack, b"sources/boot.wim")
|| contains_ascii(&haystack, b"SOURCES/BOOT.WIM")
|| contains_ascii(&haystack, b"SOURCES\\BOOT.WIM")
|| contains_ascii(&haystack, b"sources\\boot.wim")
{
report.has_boot_wim = true;
if report.family == DistroFamily::Unknown {
report.family = DistroFamily::WindowsPe;
}
// v0.5.8: broaden Windows detection. Modern Windows 10/11 ISOs are
// UDF — filenames are stored as UTF-16 (so the ASCII scan above misses
// them) and the volume label is a cryptic Microsoft string (so
// `family_from_label` misses it too). Booting is via HTTP sanboot of
// the raw ISO (no boot.wim extraction), so we only need the *family*.
// Catch the common cases: well-known Windows markers in either ASCII
// or UTF-16LE within the first 16 MiB, plus a filename hint.
if report.family == DistroFamily::Unknown {
let head = &haystack[..haystack.len().min(16 * 1024 * 1024)];
let ascii_markers: [&[u8]; 4] = [
b"bootmgr",
b"sources/install.wim",
b"sources/install.esd",
b"efi/microsoft",
];
let utf16_markers = ["bootmgr", "boot.wim", "install.wim", "microsoft"];
let looks_windows = ascii_markers.iter().any(|m| contains_ascii(head, m))
|| utf16_markers.iter().any(|m| contains_utf16le_ci(head, m))
|| filename_looks_windows(path);
if looks_windows {
report.family = DistroFamily::WindowsPe;
}
}
@@ -158,6 +183,45 @@ fn contains_ascii(haystack: &[u8], needle: &[u8]) -> bool {
.any(|w| w.eq_ignore_ascii_case(needle))
}
/// Case-insensitive search for an ASCII string encoded as UTF-16LE — the
/// way UDF (and thus modern Windows ISOs) store filenames. Each character
/// is two bytes: the ASCII low byte (compared case-insensitively) followed
/// by a 0 high byte. v0.5.8.
fn contains_utf16le_ci(haystack: &[u8], ascii: &str) -> bool {
let n = ascii.len();
if n == 0 || haystack.len() < n * 2 {
return false;
}
let lower: Vec<u8> = ascii.bytes().map(|b| b.to_ascii_lowercase()).collect();
haystack.windows(n * 2).any(|w| {
lower
.iter()
.enumerate()
.all(|(i, &c)| w[i * 2 + 1] == 0 && w[i * 2].to_ascii_lowercase() == c)
})
}
/// Filename heuristic: a stock Windows ISO almost always carries an obvious
/// token in its name (e.g. `..._windows_11_...`, `Win10`, `winserver`).
/// Used only as a last-resort family hint when the content scan and volume
/// label are inconclusive. v0.5.8.
fn filename_looks_windows(path: &Path) -> bool {
let name = path
.file_name()
.and_then(|s| s.to_str())
.unwrap_or("")
.to_ascii_lowercase();
const TOKENS: [&str; 6] = [
"windows",
"winpe",
"win10",
"win11",
"winserver",
"win-server",
];
TOKENS.iter().any(|t| name.contains(t))
}
#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
use super::*;
@@ -179,4 +243,38 @@ mod tests {
assert_eq!(family_from_label("ARCH_202604"), DistroFamily::Arch);
assert_eq!(family_from_label("weird-custom"), DistroFamily::Unknown);
}
#[test]
fn utf16le_marker_matches_case_insensitively() {
// "boot.wim" encoded UTF-16LE, mixed case — UDF stores Windows
// filenames this way, which the ASCII scan can't see.
let s = "BOOT.WIM";
let utf16: Vec<u8> = s.bytes().flat_map(|b| [b, 0]).collect();
let mut hay = vec![0u8; 8];
hay.extend_from_slice(&utf16);
hay.extend_from_slice(&[1, 2, 3]);
assert!(contains_utf16le_ci(&hay, "boot.wim"));
assert!(contains_utf16le_ci(&hay, "Boot.Wim"));
assert!(!contains_utf16le_ci(&hay, "install.wim"));
// An ASCII (not UTF-16) occurrence must NOT match the UTF-16 scan.
assert!(!contains_utf16le_ci(b"boot.wim plain ascii", "boot.wim"));
}
#[test]
fn filename_hint_catches_windows_isos() {
use std::path::Path;
assert!(filename_looks_windows(Path::new(
"en-us_windows_11_iot_enterprise_ltsc_2024_x64_dvd.iso"
)));
assert!(filename_looks_windows(Path::new(
"Win10_22H2_English_x64.iso"
)));
assert!(filename_looks_windows(Path::new("winserver2022.iso")));
assert!(!filename_looks_windows(Path::new(
"ubuntu-24.04-desktop.iso"
)));
assert!(!filename_looks_windows(Path::new(
"Rocky-9.4-x86_64-dvd.iso"
)));
}
}
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@@ -557,22 +557,22 @@ fn generate_boot_entries(id: &str, filename: &str, r: &IntrospectionReport) -> V
.clone()
.unwrap_or_else(|| filename.to_string());
match r.family {
DistroFamily::WindowsPe if r.has_boot_wim => {
// Standard wimboot chain. Paths are in-ISO; the HTTP layer maps
// `iso/<id>/<path>` to on-disk extraction via ISO9660 lookup.
let base = format!("iso/{id}");
DistroFamily::WindowsPe => {
// v0.5.8: boot Windows directly via iPXE HTTP sanboot. iPXE
// exposes the raw ISO as an emulated CD backed by on-demand
// HTTP range reads, and Windows Setup boots from it. This
// replaces the old wimboot+SMB chain, which (a) needed an SMB
// server the host often can't provide (port 445 collisions),
// (b) served in-ISO files via an ISO9660 lookup that failed on
// UDF-only Windows 11 ISOs, and (c) required an operator
// toggle. sanboot needs none of that — just the HTTP port,
// which works in any environment. The unmodified, stock ISO is
// served at iso/<id>.iso; nothing is injected into Windows.
vec![BootEntry {
id: format!("{id}-winpe"),
title: format!("{title} (Windows / wimboot)"),
kind: BootKind::Wimboot {
wimboot_url: "ipxe/wimboot".to_string(),
files: vec![
("bootmgr".into(), format!("{base}/bootmgr")),
("bootmgr.efi".into(), format!("{base}/bootmgr.efi")),
("bcd".into(), format!("{base}/boot/bcd")),
("boot.sdi".into(), format!("{base}/boot/boot.sdi")),
("boot.wim".into(), format!("{base}/sources/boot.wim")),
],
id: format!("{id}-windows"),
title: format!("{title} (Windows)"),
kind: BootKind::SanBootIso {
iso_url: format!("iso/{id}.iso"),
},
}]
}