The Launcher's XP11 port (8730b9b) now extends to everything: one net40
flavor across Console, vPOD, Contract, and SecureConfig (Newtonsoft.Json
everywhere; the net48/System.Text.Json legs and their #if splits are gone
since nothing consumed them).
Console (net40, single TFM like the Launcher):
- The ~31 BinaryFormatter bitmap blobs in the .resx files became raw
embedded files under assets/icons/ (extracted byte-faithfully via a
serialization surrogate — the animated square_throbber.gif survives),
loaded by Properties.Resources.EmbeddedBitmap/EmbeddedIcon. Reason:
System.Resources.Extensions' DeserializingResourceReader is net461+
and cannot load on net40. Strings stay in the .resx.
- IReadOnlyList -> IList in AppRegistry (net45+ interface).
vPOD (net40, single TFM):
- Zip extraction now shares the Launcher's MiniZip.cs (linked source), so
the diff-test install round-trip exercises it against ZipArchive zips.
- RPC args as JTokens; LaunchApps.json persistence via Newtonsoft;
Thread.VolatileRead instead of Volatile.Read.
Contract/SecureConfig: net40-only; Client/** (PodManagerConnection) now
ships in the one build. The Launcher package gains
TeslaSecureConfiguration.dll as a dependency of the client half.
Tests: the net48 xunit host loads the net40 assemblies (both CLR4), so
the suite exercises exactly what ships — 106/106 green. Also verified
live: net40 console provisioned, managed, and ran a full RP mission
against net40 vPOD (beacon/passphrase/RSA, 53290 RPC, egg load,
Run/Stop Mission).
Version: 4.11.4.3 across Launcher, Console, and vPOD (vPOD joins the
suite version line; was 1.0.0). Ship the dotNetFx40 redistributable in
Launcher/assets for XP-era pods.
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Two additions to the virtual launcher's real-process mode:
- Auto-restart watchdog. Replaces the poll-on-query PruneExitedProcesses
with a per-process watcher thread (StartWatcher): when a real-launched
app exits on its own -- not via a Kill*/Uninstall, which untrack it
first -- it is dropped from the running list and, if its LaunchData has
AutoRestart and the "Auto-restart after the app exits (watchdog)"
toggle is on, relaunched after the Agent's 2 s delay. A watchdog
generation counter cancels pending restarts when the pod goes dark
(power off / reboot / reprovision / WipeApps); the console's KillAllApps
leaves them pending, matching the real Agent's race.
- postinstall.bat toggle. A "Run postinstall.bat after install" checkbox
(above "Actually launch apps", off by default) makes an install execute
a packaged postinstall.bat via cmd /c (waited up to 5 min) before
deleting it, like the real service. Off, it is logged and removed unrun
as before -- it runs package script code on the host.
Both are opt-in from the vPOD window. Verified against the real
LauncherRpcServer over a loopback socket: the watchdog test relaunches an
exited ping.exe with a new PID and stops once toggled off; a crafted
package's postinstall.bat runs (and is removed) only when enabled. Full
differential suite 103/103.
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- InstallProduct now extracts into the real C:\Games (the launcher's
GAMES_DIR) so deployed products land where their catalog launch entries
point; uninstall removes the real product folder. Tests pass an isolated
games root through the VirtualLauncher ctor.
- New "Actually launch apps (real processes)" toggle (off by default =
simulated PIDs): LaunchApp starts the entry's exe exactly like the Agent
(same start info, same registered-but-not-installed error), Kill*/
Uninstall/Wipe terminate the real processes (kill before folder delete),
and self-exited apps are pruned from GetLaunchedApps/FullUpdate. Real
processes die with the machine: power off, reboot, or closing vPOD. The
Agent's autoRestart watchdog is deliberately not emulated.
- Pod Power and Mimicking Game groups swapped (game left, power right).
- Provisioning round-trip test now skips as inconclusive when a running
TeslaConsole holds UDP 53291 instead of failing the suite; two new tests
cover real launch/kill (ping.exe) and the missing-exe error path.
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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.
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