Cannot Build Windows VM Template

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#331 opened on Aug 20, 2025 2 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Hi, I've been trying this for quite some time now and the windows VM template build step fails differently each time. I can confirm the installation is working (`kafl fuzz` after `make env`).

The issue happens during the vagrant box creation (or the disk creation maybe) when the system crashes with the following output:

```
2025/08/20 04:06:49 packer-plugin-qemu_v1.1.4_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2025/08/20 04:06:49 [INFO] starting remote command: shutdown /s /t 10 /f /d p:4:1 /c "Packer Shutdown"
2025/08/20 04:06:49 packer-plugin-qemu_v1.1.4_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2025/08/20 04:06:49 [INFO] command 'shutdown /s /t 10 /f /d p:4:1 /c "Packer Shutdown"' exited with code: 0
2025/08/20 04:06:49 packer-plugin-qemu_v1.1.4_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2025/08/20 04:06:49 Waiting max 5m0s for shutdown to complete
2025/08/20 04:07:19 packer-plugin-qemu_v1.1.4_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2025/08/20 04:07:19 Qemu stderr: qemu-system-x86_64: Slirp: Failed to send packet, ret: -1
==> qemu.windows: Converting hard drive...
2025/08/20 04:07:22 packer-plugin-qemu_v1.1.4_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2025/08/20 04:07:22 VM shut down.
2025/08/20 04:07:22 packer-plugin-qemu_v1.1.4_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2025/08/20 04:07:22 Executing qemu-img: []string{"convert", "-O", "qcow2", "output-windows/win10.qcow2", "output-windows/win10.qcow2.convert"}
```

When I check `/kAFL/kafl/examples/templates/windows`, there's only the `output-windows` directory (containing - `win10.qcow2.convert` and `win10.qcow2`) but no `packer_windows_libvirt.box` and I see the following output for `make import`:

```
* Output directory 'output-windows' already exists. It must not exist.

on windows.pkr.hcl line 101:
(source code not available)

2025/08/20 04:31:18 [INFO] (telemetry) Finalizing.
Error: 1 error(s) occurred:

* Output directory 'output-windows' already exists. It must not exist.

on windows.pkr.hcl line 101:
(source code not available)
```

Even if I try multiple times after this point (after `rm -rf output-windows/`), the build step fails when trying to setup the Visual Studio Native Desktop Workload:

```
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==> qemu.windows: rc: 1603
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==> Wait
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Build 'qemu.windows'
==> Some
2025/08/20 TASK [Install Visual Studio Native Desktop Workload] *************************** fatal: [default]: FAILED! => changed=true cmd: vs_community.exe --quiet --wait --norestart --add Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeDesktop delta: '0:09:31.437566' end: '2025-08-20 09:39:32.583205' msg: non-zero return code start: '2025-08-20 09:30:01.145639' stderr_lines: Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\HelpFile\1028\help.html... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\HelpFile\1033\help.html... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\HelpFile\1046\help.html... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\HelpFile\1055\help.html... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\HelpFile\1045\help.html... 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Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\HelpFile\1042\help.html... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.C2RSignatureReader.Interop.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.C2RSignatureReader.Native.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.Identity.Client.Broker.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.Identity.Client.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.Identity.Client.Extensions.Msal.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.Identity.Client.NativeInterop.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.IdentityModel.Abstractions.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.RemoteControl.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Common.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Download.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Telemetry.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Utilities.Internal.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\runtimes\win-x64\native\msalruntime.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\runtimes\win-arm64\native\msalruntime_arm64.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\runtimes\win-x86\native\msalruntime_x86.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\Newtonsoft.Json.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\System.Memory.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\VSInstallerElevationService.Contracts.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\zh-Hans\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\pl\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\cs\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\it\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\ja\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\zh-Hant\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\tr\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\pt-BR\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\de\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\fr\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\ko\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\es\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\ru\vs_setup_bootstrapper.resources.dll... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\vs_setup_bootstrapper.config... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\vs_setup_bootstrapper.exe.config... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\detection.json... Preparing: C:\Users\vagrant\AppData\Local\Temp\76b104de170757b4ceedf8320cc692\vs_bootstrapper_d15\vs_setup_bootstrapper.json... stdout_lines: PLAY RECAP ********************************************************************* : ok=7 changed=6 unreachable=0 failed=1 skipped=4 rescued=0 ignored=0 05:39:32 [INFO] (telemetry) ending ansible Provisioning step had errors: Running the cleanup provisioner, if present... 05:39:32 packer-plugin-qemu_v1.1.4_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2025/08/20 05:39:32 failed to unlock port lockfile: close tcp [::]:5990: use of closed network connection 05:39:32 packer-plugin-qemu_v1.1.4_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2025/08/20 05:39:32 failed to unlock port lockfile: close tcp [::]:2662: use of closed network connection 05:39:32 packer-plugin-qemu_v1.1.4_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2025/08/20 05:39:32 Deleting floppy disk: /tmp/packer2972719003 Deleting output directory... 05:39:32 [INFO] (telemetry) ending qemu.windows completed after 35 minutes 13 seconds 05:39:32 machine readable: error-count []string{"1"} errored after 35 minutes 13 seconds: Error executing Ansible: Non-zero exit status: exit status 2 builds didn't complete successfully and had errors: 05:39:32 machine readable: qemu.windows,error []string{"Error executing Ansible: Non-zero exit status: exit status 2"}

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
```

It's only after I delete the whole repo and start again that I'm able to at least get to disk conversion (which is the last step I believe). But then too, as I mentioned earlier, the system crashes.

System specification:

- OS: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS x86_64
- Kernel: 6.8.0-nyx+
- CPU: Intel Ultra 7 155H

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