rhsrvany

Turn any Windows program or script into a service.

When you need to run some program or batch script as a Windows service, you either have to modify the program so it calls the Windows service APIs (impossible for a batch script), or you use some helper tool like Microsoft "SrvAny" that turns the program/script into a service.

Unfortunately SrvAny is a proprietary program.

This project, rhsrvany, is a lightweight free software equivalent.

More information about rhsrvany

For more information, see:

http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/tip-install-a-service-in-a-windows-vm/#content

Please send patches etc to the virt-tools mailing list:

http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/virt-tools-list

This program was originally written by Yuval Kashtan as part of the Qumranet / RHEV-M / oVirt project, and released as free software by Red Hat.

This program is currently maintained by Richard W.M. Jones.

Note for virt-v2v users

You may have arrived here searching for a particular error message raised by the [virt-v2v]¹ tool:

virt-v2v: error: One of rhsrvany.exe or pvvxsvc.exe is missing in /usr/share/virt-tools.

One of them is required in order to install Windows firstboot scripts.

You can get one by building rhsrvany (https://github.com/rwmjones/rhsrvany)

Binary releases

This project does not release binary packages directly. Binaries are available on multiple Linux distributions which, normally, also ship virt-v2v.

Please check if your distribution provides such binaries in the form of a package.

It is possible to extract rhsrvany.exe from the distribution packages.

Here is ane example, using Fedora's RPM package. It should work on any system that has the rpm2cpio tool.

• Get the latest RPM from Fedora of the mingw-srvany package² (you want the "noarch" one)
• Extract the files using rpm2cpio (this tool is available on pretty much any distro)

Full example

The following code snippet would make virt-v2v happy on a Debian (or derivative) system:

apt install -y rpm2cpio

wget -nd -O srvany.rpm https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//packages/mingw-srvany/1.1/4.fc38/noarch/mingw32-srvany-1.1-4.fc38.noarch.rpm

rpm2cpio srvany.rpm | cpio -idmv \
  && mkdir /usr/share/virt-tools \
  && mv ./usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/*exe /usr/share/virt-tools/

which installs pnp_wait.exe and rhsrvany.exe into /usr/share/virt-tools/

Footnotes

1. https://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v.1.html ↩

2. https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=13522 ↩