Add System, Windows, and Recovery partition drive-letter settings to the Hyper-V Settings UI, config save/load, BuildFFUVM parameters, and sample/docs. Defaults remain S, W, and R.
Validate selected letters early, log validation failures for the UI, include drive-letter metadata in VHDX cache matching, and normalize legacy malformed cache values. This only affects FFU build-time partitioning; ApplyFFU deployment letters remain unchanged.
Refreshes numerous screenshot image references across the documentation to reflect the latest UI changes. Updates text descriptions in several documents (Build, Prerequisites, Quickstart, Windows Settings) to align with recent features, such as the new Windows Media Source options, explicitly mentioning PowerShell 7.6+ requirements, and clarifying the Device Naming and Copy Unattend.xml behavior.
Co-authored-by: Copilot <copilot@github.com>
The Hyper-V switch selection in the UI previously did not connect the build VM to the network during provisioning. Since internet-connected Sysprep and capture flows are still experimental, this introduces an explicit "Enable VM Networking" checkbox to the Hyper-V Settings page that defaults to off.
- Adds the `-EnableVMNetworking` parameter to BuildFFUVM.ps1 to conditionally attach the Hyper-V network adapter during VM creation.
- Persists the setting through FFU config files and blocks UI execution if enabled without a valid switch.
- Refactors WPF event handlers in FFUUI.Core to fix dropdown scoping errors.
- Updates documentation and the sample configuration file to reflect the new behavior.
By optimizing and mounting the VHDX directly on the host for image capture, the build process no longer needs to boot the VM into WinPE, create SMB network shares, generate temporary local accounts, or rely on complex Hyper-V switch IP configurations. This streamlines the workflow and eliminates multiple networking and permission-related points of failure.
This change also removes the need to generate and attach WinPE capture media. All related parameters (`ShareName`, `Username`, `VMHostIPAddress`, `CreateCaptureMedia`, `CleanupCaptureISO`), UI controls, capture scripts, and documentation references have been removed or updated to reflect the simplified architecture.
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