Promote vPOD to a top-level project (Console/vPOD -> vPOD/)

vPOD has outgrown its home inside the console's folder: it now emulates both
halves of a pod (Munga game client + TeslaLauncher service / provisioning),
so it lives at the repo root beside Console/, Launcher/, Contract/ and
SecureConfig/, like the peer it has become.

Accompanying changes: project references rebased (Contract, SecureConfig,
the console's vendored Munga Net.dll), solution + DiffTests reference paths,
the console csproj's now-obsolete vPOD source exclusion removed, and the
root README / Apps.xml / vPOD README path mentions updated. pack.ps1 is
self-relative and now emits vPOD/dist/vPOD.zip.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Console/RedPlanet/Apps.xml

@@ -113,10 +113,10 @@
   </Product>
 
   <!-- vPOD - virtual pod / game-client stand-in for testing the game consoles
-       (Console\vPOD). Speaks Munga on 1501 like a real rpl4opt.exe/btl4.exe and
-       reports either ApplicationID (toggled live in its window). Deploy it to a
-       pod exactly like a real client; the package (Console\vPOD\dist\vPOD.zip,
-       built by pack.ps1) extracts to C:\Games\vPOD. -->
+       (vPOD\ at the repo root). Speaks Munga on 1501 like a real
+       rpl4opt.exe/btl4.exe and reports either ApplicationID (toggled live in
+       its window). Deploy it to a pod exactly like a real client; the package
+       (vPOD\dist\vPOD.zip, built by pack.ps1) extracts to C:\Games\vPOD. -->
   <Product id="0041C870-6E5E-4F3B-9782-F94F2F76F21D"
            name="vPOD (Virtual Pod)"
            menuText="vPOD (Virtual Pod)..."

Console/TeslaConsole.csproj

@@ -45,10 +45,6 @@
     <Compile Remove="tests\**" />
     <None Remove="tests\**" />
     <Content Remove="tests\**" />
-    <!-- vPOD is its own deployable exe under vPOD\; exclude it from the console build. -->
-    <Compile Remove="vPOD\**" />
-    <None Remove="vPOD\**" />
-    <Content Remove="vPOD\**" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>

Console/tests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests/TeslaConsole.DiffTests.csproj

@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     <ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\SecureConfig\Tesla.SecureConfig.csproj" />
     <!-- vPOD's virtual launcher (server side of the pod RPC), exercised end-to-end
          against the real PodManagerConnection client in VPodLauncherServerTests. -->
-    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\vPOD\vPOD.csproj" />
+    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\..\vPOD\vPOD.csproj" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>

README.md

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ The Tesla cockpit-pod software, in one repository:
 | [`Launcher/`](Launcher/) | **TeslaLauncher** — the pod-side Service (Session 0 RPC listener) + Agent (user-session app launcher). A clean rewrite of the original launcher. | .NET Framework 4.8 |
 | [`Contract/`](Contract/) | **Tesla.Contract** — the shared Console↔Launcher RPC contract: wire types, the client, and the framed-JSON protocol. Emits assembly `TeslaConsoleLaunchLib`. | .NET Framework 4.8 |
 | [`SecureConfig/`](SecureConfig/) | **Tesla.SecureConfig** — the first-boot pod provisioning protocol (UDP beacons, OFB crypto, RSA key exchange). Emits assembly `TeslaSecureConfiguration`. | .NET Framework 4.8 |
+| [`vPOD/`](vPOD/) | **vPOD** — a virtual pod for testing the consoles without cockpit hardware: impersonates both the game client (Munga, TCP 1501) and the pod's TeslaLauncher service (provisioning + Site Management / Install Product on TCP 53290). | .NET Framework 4.8 |
 
 The console and launcher talk over **TCP 53290** using **length-prefixed
 `System.Text.Json` frames over an OFB-encrypted stream** ([`Contract/PodRpcProtocol.cs`](Contract/PodRpcProtocol.cs)),
@@ -32,7 +33,9 @@ install, since .NET Framework 4.8 ships in Windows 10/11), and
 [`Launcher/install.bat`](Launcher/install.bat) deploys it on a cockpit PC (registers the
 Service, sets up the Agent for auto-login, hardens the box). The operator console packages
 the same way: [`Console/build-package.bat`](Console/build-package.bat) → `Console/dist/`,
-installed with [`Console/install.bat`](Console/install.bat).
+installed with [`Console/install.bat`](Console/install.bat). vPOD packages with
+[`vPOD/pack.ps1`](vPOD/pack.ps1) → `vPOD/dist/vPOD.zip`, deployable to a pod via the
+console's Install Product (or run directly on any machine).
 
 ## Layout notes
 

TeslaSuite.sln

@@ -19,16 +19,13 @@ Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "Tesla.Contract", "Contract\
 EndProject
 Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "Tesla.SecureConfig", "SecureConfig\Tesla.SecureConfig.csproj", "{070A6093-6C46-4A5B-A119-47ED195530E1}"
 EndProject
-Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "vPOD", "Console\vPOD\vPOD.csproj", "{9EAC97A1-D71A-4AAB-9957-A79A1587D406}"
+Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "vPOD", "vPOD\vPOD.csproj", "{9EAC97A1-D71A-4AAB-9957-A79A1587D406}"
 EndProject
 Global
 	GlobalSection(SolutionConfigurationPlatforms) = preSolution
 		Debug|Any CPU = Debug|Any CPU
 		Release|Any CPU = Release|Any CPU
 	EndGlobalSection
-	GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
-		HideSolutionNode = FALSE
-	EndGlobalSection
 	GlobalSection(ProjectConfigurationPlatforms) = postSolution
 		{27285664-95C3-49FB-95BA-A34721060BF1}.Debug|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Debug|Any CPU
 		{27285664-95C3-49FB-95BA-A34721060BF1}.Debug|Any CPU.Build.0 = Debug|Any CPU
@@ -59,9 +56,11 @@ Global
 		{9EAC97A1-D71A-4AAB-9957-A79A1587D406}.Release|Any CPU.ActiveCfg = Release|Any CPU
 		{9EAC97A1-D71A-4AAB-9957-A79A1587D406}.Release|Any CPU.Build.0 = Release|Any CPU
 	EndGlobalSection
+	GlobalSection(SolutionProperties) = preSolution
+		HideSolutionNode = FALSE
+	EndGlobalSection
 	GlobalSection(NestedProjects) = preSolution
 		{27C769F3-F07F-456E-ACB7-F4A4A21AB6D1} = {91E92ADD-9F67-41E4-B43C-CCB7B2D95F15}
 		{467AA87A-FBD4-45D7-B8F8-9336C95884D2} = {27C769F3-F07F-456E-ACB7-F4A4A21AB6D1}
-		{9EAC97A1-D71A-4AAB-9957-A79A1587D406} = {91E92ADD-9F67-41E4-B43C-CCB7B2D95F15}
 	EndGlobalSection
 EndGlobal

vPOD/README.md

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ An end-to-end loopback test of this server against the console's real
 
 ## Deploying from the console (Manage Site → Install Product)
 
-vPOD is a catalog product (`RedPlanet\Apps.xml`, id `0041C870-…`) with Game
+vPOD is a catalog product (`Console\RedPlanet\Apps.xml`, id `0041C870-…`) with Game
 Client / Live Camera / Mission Review entries, so it appears in **Manage Site →
 Install Product** like any game. Build the deployable package first:
 

vPOD/vPOD.csproj

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     console connects to it exactly as it would a real rpl4opt.exe / btl4.exe),
     emulates the pod ApplicationState machine, reassembles the streamed egg,
     and shows both on a live display. Deployable to a pod machine via the
-    console's Manage Site -> Install Product (see dist\ + RedPlanet\Apps.xml).
+    console's Manage Site -> Install Product (see dist\ + Console\RedPlanet\Apps.xml).
 
     net48 to match the rest of the suite and the vendored Munga Net.dll.
   -->
@@ -45,10 +45,11 @@
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
-    <!-- The Munga wire types (messages, header, enums). Copied next to vPOD.exe so
-         the deployable package is self-contained. -->
+    <!-- The Munga wire types (messages, header, enums), vendored under the
+         console's lib\. Copied next to vPOD.exe so the deployable package is
+         self-contained. -->
     <Reference Include="Munga Net">
-      <HintPath>..\lib\Munga Net.dll</HintPath>
+      <HintPath>..\Console\lib\Munga Net.dll</HintPath>
       <Private>true</Private>
     </Reference>
   </ItemGroup>
@@ -59,8 +60,8 @@
          PodRpc framing + ILauncherService wire types, and the SecureConfig
          provisioning protocol + OFB crypto-stream handshake. vPOD implements the
          SERVER side of the existing contract only - no new RPCs. -->
-    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\Contract\Tesla.Contract.csproj" />
-    <ProjectReference Include="..\..\SecureConfig\Tesla.SecureConfig.csproj" />
+    <ProjectReference Include="..\Contract\Tesla.Contract.csproj" />
+    <ProjectReference Include="..\SecureConfig\Tesla.SecureConfig.csproj" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
 </Project>