This post is to record the process to change my Ubuntu Linux VM to Windows VM in Oracle cloud and other public cloud providers.
There are many reasons you might want to have a Windows system machine in the cloud for your lab. The steps are completely based on some other genius people’s contribution.
Table of Contents
DD Windows to Oracle Cloud Platform Ubuntu VM
Notes:
1. Only Ubuntu works in Oracle Cloud Platform (OCP).
2. Not all images works for OCP. The image works for Oracle Cloud will need to support UEFI.
Steps:
1. Create your own Ubuntu compute instance as usual:
2. Prepare Your Ubuntu VM’s Environment (Optional)
If you are using latest Ubuntu version 20.04, you do not have to run following commands. For older version, you might need to run following commands to get some dependencies installed.
sudo -i
apt-get update
apt-get install -y xz-utils openssl gawk file
3. One command to download script and install DD image from one of moeclub.org’s sharing post:.
For example, DD a Chinese Win7 image:
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'https://api.moeclub.org/GoogleDrive/1NHKdm3xfQ3HySNCGvrzgdz7RMVCI1qGy'
username : administrator
password : www.nat.ee
Above one is Chinese Win7 DD image. Here is one for English Win7:
[Updated Jan 10, 2022] d.nat.ee site is down, please change to a different image url
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'http://d.nat.ee/win/lite/us/win7-sp1-ent-x64-us/win7-sp1-ent-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz'
Account: Administrator
password: nat.ee
[Updated Jan 10, 2022]
I have replaced nat.ee’s image file url to the one from VPS0.NET which backed up most of NAT.EE packages.
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'https://vps0.net/natee/win/lite/win7-sp1-ent-x64-us/win7-sp1-ent-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz'
Found https://vps0.net/?natee which has most of NAT.EE site’s backup. Not test yet. But will do testing once having some time. You can get URL from vps0.net and replace the one in the command accordingly.
[Updated March 25, 2022] Another backup site: https://oss.sunpma.com/Windows/
Backup script example:
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://sunpma.com/other/oss/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'https://oss.sunpma.com/Windows/Oracle_Win7_sp1_64_Administrator_nat.ee.gz'
For other Windows versions:
- Win7 English – Lite
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'https://vps0.net/natee/win/lite/win7-sp1-ent-x64-us/win7-sp1-ent-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz'
Account: Administrator
password: nat.ee
- Win10 – LTSC (Not Lite version)
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC English (build: 19044.1288) (3.03GB)
wget -qO DebianNET.sh qiu.sh/dd && bash DebianNET.sh -dd 'https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/en-us_win10_ltsc_uefi.xz'
Account: Administrator
password: Teddysun.com
Win10 LTSC 2021 X64 CN version:
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'https://vps0.net/natee/win/guajibao/guajibao-win10-ent-ltsc-2021-x64-cn/guajibao-win10-ent-ltsc-2021-x64-cn-efi.vhd.gz'
Account: Administrator
password: nat.ee
- Win 11 English (Full Version – Not Lite)
Windows 11 Pro for Workstations 21H2 (build: 22000.194) :2.96GB
wget -qO DebianNET.sh qiu.sh/dd && bash DebianNET.sh -dd 'https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/en-us_win11_uefi.xz'
Account: Administrator
password: Teddysun.com
Note: the package .xz format is taking longer time to process than .gz package. The whole process will be more than 50 minutes based on my VNC console testing result.
- 2012 R2 English – Lite
https://vps0.net/natee/win/lite/winsrv2012r2-data-x64-us/winsrv2012r2-data-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'https://vps0.net/natee/win/lite/winsrv2012r2-data-x64-us/winsrv2012r2-data-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz'
Account: Administrator
password: nat.ee
- 2016 English – Lite
nat.ee site is not working anymore. New image url: https://vps0.net/natee/win/lite/winsrv2016-data-x64-us/winsrv2016-data-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'http://d.nat.ee/win/lite/us/winsrv2016-data-x64-us/winsrv2016-data-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz'
Account: Administrator
password: nat.ee
Command with new URL.
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'https://vps0.net/natee/win/lite/winsrv2016-data-x64-us/winsrv2016-data-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz'
- 2019 English – Full
https://vps0.net/natee/win/full/winsrv2019-data-x64-us/winsrv2019-data-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz
Note: this is full version of 2019, not lite version, which means it requires more CPU and Memory (4G) then lite version.
You can copy and paste following command into your Ubuntu system to run then wait about 45 – 55 minutes since image is 4.2GB size, which is much larger than normal lite version OS image:
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'https://vps0.net/natee/win/full/winsrv2019-data-x64-us/winsrv2019-data-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz'
- 2022 English – Lite
https://vps0.net/natee/win/lite/winsrv2022-data-x64-us/winsrv2022-data-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh -dd 'http://d.nat.ee/win/lite/us/winsrv2022-data-x64-us/winsrv2022-data-x64-us-efi.vhd.gz'
Account: Administrator
password: nat.ee
You will see lots of texts are scrolling up in your terminal sessions. After one or two minutes, you will lose your SSH connection. Please give the machine 5-10 minutes, before you manual reboot your Ubuntu VM. During reboot, the VM status will become stopping.
The VM will maintain this stopping status for 20-25 minutes for lite version OS DD, 45-50 minutes for full version OS DD, then it will become Running status.
At that time, all DD imaging processes and system rebooting processes will be completed. You will be able to RDP to this VM’s public ip with port 3389. Please make sure you have add RDP port 3389 into your Network Security Groups.
Different DD images might have different log in credentials. Those are pre-set by those image maker. All risks are yours since no guarantee those images are clean and safe. I have run some of images for years and no issues found. Strongly suggested to change 3389 port to something else.
After log in, please change password asap. It is best also change 3389 port to others.
The system is either English or Chinese version, and following is Chinese Windows 7 64B Ultimate version. You will need to activate it by yourself.
The default system after installed, memory usage will be around 366MB, and CPU usage will be less than 1%.
DD Windows to GCP Cloud VM
For GCP, you can choose default debian10 as OS version. So far, only found some Win7 and Win10 images are working for Google Cloud Platform.
SSD persistent disk is not necessary here, but it will make whole process faster, about 10 minutes less comparing to use standard disk. SSD is not free tier covered. Standard persistent disk is free.
You might need to run following commands first before issue DD command:
sudo i
apt-get update
apt-get install -y xz-utils openssl gawk file wget -y
For GCP or Azure cloud environment, all steps are similar. It will be non-efi images. For the command, only different is that in the command you will need to manual pass network parameters into the Windows VM during DD process.
# Change X.X.X.X to your Ubuntu’s configuration
# –ip-addr :IP Address
# –ip-mask :Netmask
# –ip-gate :Gateway
wget —no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh ‘https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh’ && bash InstallNET.sh –ip-addr X.X.X.X –ip-mask X.X.X.X –ip-gate X.X.X.X -dd ‘DD Image URL’
Wait about 30 minutes then use RDP to connect. Make sure RDP port has been opened from your security group firewall rule.
Depending your OS, following screen might look different. You will need to enter into sudo mode first using “sudo -i” command then issue DD command:
Command Example 1 for Windows 2008 64B R2:
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh --ip-addr 10.X.X.X --ip-mask 255.255.255.0 --ip-gate 10.x.0.1 -dd 'https://api.moeclub.org/GoogleDrive/1DTps9WwC6RZ8szflais8YazpkCVdqdI7'
Command Example 2 for Win7 64B SP1 with IIS:
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh --ip-addr 10.X.X.X --ip-mask 255.255.255.0 --ip-gate 10.x.0.1 -dd 'https://api.moeclub.org/GoogleDrive/1KA9PDH4T2ODbxS97T6MtTk5TwifQQoIp'You will need to replace x.x.x.x with your own Linux VM’s ip. You will need to change the gateway as well. Gateway ip usually is x.x.x.1
Log into SSH Console to check gateway
netsec@instance-1:~$ netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface default 10.128.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 ens4 10.128.0.1 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ens4
Notes: For GCP cloud, not always DD process working . I have tested a couple of images, here are some of works from my testing.
For Win 7
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://moeclub.org/attachment/LinuxShell/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh --ip-addr 10.128.0.26 --ip-mask 255.255.255.0 --ip-gate 10.128.0.1 -dd 'https://bos.tobnsdgbm.tk/Files/%E7%B3%BB%E7%BB%9F%E8%B5%84%E6%BA%90/guajibao-win7-sp1-ent-x64-cn/guajibao-win7-sp1-ent-x64-cn-efi.vhd.gz'
After you issued DD command, after 1 minutes, your console session will lost connection as show below.
You will need to wait 30-40 minutes to try RDP connection using MSTSC.exe client. Do not forget to open RDP Port 3389 from VPC network Firewall page:
One thing you can check is through Observablity from GCP portal. Monitoring the hard drive IOPS, read/write metrics to see if the process has been completed or not.
Password for NAT.EE image. For other images, you might need to check what the credential is for RDP login.
username : administrator
password : www.nat.ee or nat.ee
After you logged in, the RAM usage is less than 500MB. CPU is almost minimum usage. Hard Drive is used less than 5G. This image is from NAT.EE’s guajibao-win7-sp1-ent-x64-cn-efi.vhd.gz.
For Win10:
Although it is LTSC lite version, it still takes lots of CPU, Memory and Hard Drive space, comparing to Win7 lite version.
wget --no-check-certificate -qO InstallNET.sh 'https://sunpma.com/other/oss/InstallNET.sh' && bash InstallNET.sh --ip-addr 10.128.0.33 --ip-mask 255.255.255.0 --ip-gate 10.128.0.1 -dd 'https://oss.sunpma.com/Windows/Win10_2021LTSC_64_Administrator_nat.ee.gz'
It took 45 minutes before you can RDP in. It might take another 5 minutes to initial your profile before you can see the desktop.
Tested Images for GCP:
- https://oss.sunpma.com/Windows/Win7_sp1_64_Administrator_nat.ee.gz
- 1.37 GB
- https://oss.sunpma.com/Windows/Whole/Win7_sp1_64_Administrator_nat.ee.gz
- 3.07 GB
- https://oss.sunpma.com/Windows/Win10_2021LTSC_64_Administrator_nat.ee.gz
- 2.42 GB
- https://vps0.net/natee/win/guajibao/guajibao-win7-sp1-ent-x64-cn/guajibao-win7-sp1-ent-x64-cn-efi.vhd.gz
- 1.36 GB
DD Windows to Azure Cloud VM
Although some posts say following Windows packages are working, based on testing, none of them works for me.
Anyway, there is no need to DD Windows to Azure Cloud VM since you are able to install official Windows OS directly to free tier VM. Performance is still OK.
Azure Cloud – not working based on my verify
Following images are good for Azure Cloud to DD Windows；
DD Windows to Other Cloud Providers
OVH
此DD包仅适用于OVH云服务器DD Win使用
说明：OVH需要使用网络参数进行安装，博主并未进行测试，这里仅提供直链安装包；
# Windows 7中文版： http://down.80host.com/iso/dd/win7_cn_5gb_virtio_scsi.gz http://down.80host.com/iso/dd/win7_cn_5gb_virtio_scsi_faster.gz
- 默认用户名：administrator
- 默认密码：www.80host.com
Linode专用镜像：
Windows Server 2003 中文版： http://down.80host.com/iso/dd/cn2003-virtio-pass-Linode.gz
- 默认用户名：Administrator
- 默认密码：Linode
DD Image List and Commands
1. From nat.ee
Lite DD Images: https://oss.sunpma.com/
Those DD package only works for Oracle cloud；（note：not suitable for ARM machines)
[username: Administrator, password:nat.ee] All are Chinese version
Full DD Image
English DD Image with EFI
http://d.nat.ee/?win/lite/us– Not working anymore since Jan 9 2022- https://vps0.net/?natee/win/
- http://a.iplc.best/natee/
2. From Teddysun
Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter 镜像链接地址：
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/cn_win2012r2_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/en_win2012r2_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/ja_win2012r2_uefi.xz
Windows Server 2016 Datacenter (build：14393.5006) 镜像链接地址：
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/cn_win2016_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/en_win2016_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/ja_win2016_uefi.xz
Windows Server 2019 Datacenter (build: 17763.2686) 镜像链接地址：
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/cn_win2019_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/en_win2019_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/ja_win2019_uefi.xz
Windows Server 2022 Datacenter (build: 20348.587) 镜像链接地址：
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/zh-cn_win2022_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/en-us_win2022_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/ja-jp_win2022_uefi.xz
Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC (build: 19044.1288) 镜像链接地址：
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/zh-cn_win10_ltsc_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/en-us_win10_ltsc_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/ja-jp_win10_ltsc_uefi.xz
Windows 11 Pro for Workstations 21H2 (build: 22000.194) 镜像链接地址：
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/zh-cn_win11_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/en-us_win11_uefi.xz
https://dl.lamp.sh/vhd/ja-jp_win11_uefi.xz
3. Old Images from TeddySun
Username: administrator Password: Teddysun.com
Chinese Version Windows 10 Pro for Workstations（Windows build 版本号：19042.630）https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/cn_windows10_20h2.gz
English Version Windows 10 Pro for Workstations（Windows build 版本号：19042.630） https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/en_windows10_20h2.gz
Chinese Version Windows Server 2019 Datacenter（Windows build 版本号：17763.1613）https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/cn_windows2019_v2.gz
English Version Windows Server 2019 Datacenter（Windows build 版本号：17763.1613）https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/en_windows2019_v2.gz
Username: administrator Password: Password147
Chinese Version Windows Server 2019 Datacenter（Windows 版本号：17763.1）https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/cn_windows2019.gz
English Version Windows Server 2019 Datacenter（Windows 版本号：17763.1）https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/en_windows2019.gz
Chinese Version Windows Server 2016 Datacenter（Windows 版本号：14393.1884）https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/cn_windows2016.gz
English Version Windows Server 2016 Datacenter（Windows 版本号：14393.1884）https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/en_windows2016.gz
Chinese Version Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter: https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/cn_windows2012r2.gz
English Version Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter :https://fr1.teddyvps.com/iso/en_windows2012r2.gz
4. DD Images from cxhhhhh.com:
Light versions of windows:
#DD Windows Server 2003 32位 精简版 [账户Administrator密码cxthhhhh.com]
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/ajqa1vwxfqulazd/Win-Server-2003-X32%5BAdministrator-cxthhhhh.com%5D.gz
#DD Windows Server 2008 R2 64位 精简版 [账户Administrator密码WinSrv2008x64-Chinese]
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/jhxp38eeu9quu12/Win-Server-2008R2-X64%5BAdministrator-WinSrv2008x64-Chinese%5D.gz
#DD Windows Server 2012 R2 64位 精简版 [账户Administrator密码WinSrv2012r2x64-Chinese]
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/9r7v27hmmbytur1/Win-Server-2012R2-X64%5BAdministrator-WinSrv2012r2x64-Chinese%5D.gz
#DD Windows Server 2019 Datacenter 64位 精简版 [账户Administrator密码WinSrv2019dc-Chinese]
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/y675vyr04egz2xs/Win-Server2019-Datacenter-X64%5BAdministrator-WinSrv2019dc-Chinese%5D.gz
#DD Windows7 sp1 64位 旗舰精简版 自带IIS [账户Administrator密码www.nat.ee]
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/4ouiqrddtajk1c8/Win7%20X64%20sp1%20IIS%5BAdministrator-www.nat.ee%5D.gz
#DD Windows7 64位 旗舰精简版 [账户Administrator密码www.nat.ee]
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/fzoaonaj9fbxatg/Win7-X64%5BAdministrator-www.nat.ee%5D.gz
#DD Windows10 64位 企业精简版 2019LTSC [账户Administrator密码www.nat.ee]
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/ra7m1zm0fevjuby/Win10-2019LTSC-X64%5BAdministrator-www.nat.ee%5D.gz
#Oracle专用 DD Windows7 64位 精简版 [账户Administrator密码www.nat.ee]
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/x5f23j6qhp1dneq/Oracle-Win7-X64%5BAdministrator-www.nat.ee%5D.gz
#OVH专用 DD Windows7 64位 精简版 [账户administrator密码www.80host.com]
https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/knhw80grm9o3b35/OVH-Win7-X64%5Badministrator-www.80host.com%5D.gz
Full version of windows:
#DD Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter 64位 完整版 [账户administrator密码Password147] https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/3y3mvht0u6fm34g/cn_windows2012r2%5Badministrator-Password147%5D.gz #DD Windows Server 2016 Datacenter 64位 完整版 [账户administrator密码Password147] https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/wk3zltm9kepfg99/cn_windows2016%5Badministrator-Password147%5D.gz #DD Windows Server 2019 Datacenter 64位 完整版 [账户administrator密码Password147] https://dl-web.dropbox.com/s/bp92z37ae4hlnd0/cn_windows2019%5Badministrator-Password147%5D.gz
5. Others
- https://d.lxc.cool/
- https://p.csgo.ml/
- https://files.zcnzc.com/
YouTube Videos
YouTube video – DD Windows 2008 to VM in Google Cloud Platform (GCP):
Here are videos for Oracle Cloud Platform:
DD Win7
DD Win10 LTSC
DD Win11
DD Win2012
DD Win2016
DD Win2019
DD Win2022
Troubleshooting
1. Internet won’t work, until changed DNS as following:
This setting is important for your Internet browsing.
8.8.8.8
1.1.1.1
2. Activate Windows
Right click to run CMD as administrator
slmgr.vbs -upk
slmgr.vbs -ipk RHTBY-VWY6D-QJRJ9-JGQ3X-Q2289
slmgr.vbs -ato
slmgr.vbs -dlv3. Enable Ping:
Right click to run CMD as administrator
Enable Ping：
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8
Stop Ping：
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable4. Resize Hard Drive:
计算机右键-管理-存储-磁盘管理, 扩展卷 到最大,就能用所有的10G Hard Drive.
5. Install IPBan
Win2012 machine will need extra steps.
Win2016, you can directly install it through following command:
IPBan配置
你也可以手动访问C:\Program Files\IPBan\ipban.config文件随时进行调整
安装完毕后会自动配置相关服务，开启系统登录/注销事件安全审计，并且打开配置文件
ctrl+f查询appsettings项，找到下图两个红线标记位置，一个是失败次数，另一个是封禁时间，默认是5次登录失败，封禁1天
你也可以手动访问C:\Program Files\IPBan\ipban.config文件随时进行调整
References
- DD Windows 一键脚本（包含GCP谷歌云Oracle甲骨文） – https://sunpma.com/137.html
- http://d.nat.ee/?win/lite/us – Image Storages
- DD Windows包一键脚本原版和精简系统合集
- https://vps0.net/?natee
I am getting ‘Not found grub’ error any suggestion
in Oracle Cloud?
run as ubuntu 18.04
How to make windows 7 file to oracle cloud from my windows 7 iso file
you will need to make your own DD package. You might want to take a look some other people’s post: https://cloud.tencent.com/developer/article/1157915
Testet and working with W2022 Image English.
Could you share where to get English version of Win7 Lite Image for Oracle Cloud? thx