Version 2302 system image format changed to vhdx

[YT-Advanced]

In version 2302, the system image format changed to vhdx, so this script can't work :((( Please add a feature to mount and edit vhdx image
Update: You can use my prebuilt from here (Auto build using Github Action):
https://github.com/YT-Advanced/WSA-Script/releases/latest

[ghost]

Can confirm that they did indeed made this decision for some reason, kinda sucks.

[juicypop]

you can try to convert with your WSL:

apt-get update   
apt install qemu-utils  
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 product.vhdx product.img  
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 system.vhdx system.img  
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 system_ext.vhdx system_ext.img  
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 vendor.vhdx vendor.im

edit: never mind, it converts but the images aren't readable

[ghost]

you can try to convert with your WSL:

apt-get update   
apt install qemu-utils  
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 product.vhdx product.img  
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 system.vhdx system.img  
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 system_ext.vhdx system_ext.img  
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 vendor.vhdx vendor.im

Have you tested this? Because I doubt it being very good solution

[juicypop]

Have you tested this? Because I doubt it being very good solution

Just finished my testings and you're right ofcourse. Saddly this doesn't work

[ghost]

Have you tested this? Because I doubt it being very good solution

Just finished my testings and you're right ofcourse. Saddly this doesn't work

Yeah I thought as much.. I think you would have to convert it back to vdhx and I'm guessing it would just add even more instability with it. Guess all we can do is wait

[YT-Advanced]

we can mount, unmount read-write vhdx but we can't resize it to copy file :(

[YT-Advanced]

@juicypop Did you test vboxmanage for convert process ?

[juicypop]

@juicypop Did you test vboxmanage for convert process ?

I didn't even try and gave up on building it from source. There are projects that are ready to install from PowerShell with 1-2 commands and on the latest version.

I think this repo isn't maintained any longer and it doesn't make much sense to waste our time here.
Here's the link if you're interested https://ahaan.co.uk/article/top_stories/google-play-store-windows-11-install

[YT-Advanced]

@juicypop This method use the script from MagiskOnWSALocal instead. And the script are build in bash too (which is didn't support vhdx)

[kurtilingus]

Arrgh.... of course I read the Issues tab only after having incompetently fumbled around for hours trying to work this exact thing out only to find out this whole flipping thing is essentially useless now... Hoo. Ray.

[FeuerDrachenEinhorn]

having the same issue, I was wondering why it didn't work until I realize that the file format is different now 😥

[rainwashed]

is there anyway to get a downgraded version?

[YT-Advanced]

@rainwashed @FeuerDrachenEinhorn use my prebuilt WSA instead:
https://github.com/YT-Advanced/WSA-Script/releases/latest

[rainwashed]

@YT-Advanced thanks :)

[JesseMcL]

If you download the current retail release of WSA (rather than the fast release) then the images are still in .img format

[ghost]

If you download the current retail release of WSA (rather than the fast release) then the images are still in .img format

Yes they are but there is plenty of other issues with that one..

./apply.sh: line 31: echo: write error: No space left on device

chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-venezia.xml': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-venezia.xml': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-venezia.xml': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-venezia.xml': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-venezia.xml': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-venezia.xml': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-venezia.xml': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory chcon: failed to get security context of '/mnt/product/priv-app/amazon-adm-release/amazon-adm-release.apk': No such file or directory

Due to these errors, it does not work. Atleast not for me.. When I run it, Windows gives buffer overflow error. Did anyone else get it to work?

[marklesterb28]

i have no coding background and stumbled upon this thread while following instructions found here: https://nerdschalk.com/how-to-get-google-play-store-and-gapps-on-windows-11-with-windows-subsystem-for-android/. I realized too late that the reason why the play store app is not showing up is because img files are vhdx files. thanks for posting the prebuilt ones, @YT-Advanced ! let me try this one out

[mohan-cao]

I haven't been able to get read-write mounting of the VHDX working correctly (if anyone has any suggestions please let me know). I've only been able to mount the VHDX images in read-only using libguestfs and linux-image-generic in WSL2.

@YT-Advanced Have you tried using Resize-VHD? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/hyper-v/resize-vhd?view=windowsserver2022-ps

[YT-Advanced]

I haven't been able to get read-write mounting of the VHDX working correctly (if anyone has any suggestions please let me know). I've only been able to mount the VHDX images in read-only using libguestfs and linux-image-generic in WSL2.

@YT-Advanced Have you tried using Resize-VHD? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/hyper-v/resize-vhd?view=windowsserver2022-ps

I have used qemu to convert the image to img then convert back to vhdx. You can check my WSA-Script in my github

[VNRARA]

Gotta love how the devs don't update the readme immediately upon this knowledge and letting everyone just waste their time on this issue. 👎

[ghost]

Gotta love how the devs don't update the readme immediately upon this knowledge and letting everyone just waste their time on this issue. 👎

That's because it seems this project is abandoned by WSA-Community. I would recommend checking YT-Advanced's script for this.
https://github.com/YT-Advanced/WSA-Script
Last update they made was 2 days ago.

[YT-Advanced]

Gotta love how the devs don't update the readme immediately upon this knowledge and letting everyone just waste their time on this issue. 👎

That's because it seems this project is abandoned by WSA-Community. I would recommend checking YT-Advanced's script for this. https://github.com/YT-Advanced/WSA-Script Last update they made was 2 days ago.

It is automatically so it will be up to date with original WSA (Now MagiskOnWSALocal are abandoned too) :(

[ghost]

Gotta love how the devs don't update the readme immediately upon this knowledge and letting everyone just waste their time on this issue. 👎

That's because it seems this project is abandoned by WSA-Community. I would recommend checking YT-Advanced's script for this. https://github.com/YT-Advanced/WSA-Script Last update they made was 2 days ago.

It is automatically so it will be up to date with original WSA (Now MagiskOnWSALocal are abandoned too) :(

It's a shame but I get it. The performance is abysmal compared to Bluestacks for example. Some of them games I played on WSA just year ago are now extremely laggy.. and WSA still isnt available everywhere, and lot of people don't even use it..
The community around WSA is quite small still, and probably will be unless there is major improvements and better availability

[nHornDK]

so i made i fork where i got it working by converting the .vhdx files to .img
and mounting with fuse2fs
see https://github.com/nHornDK/WSAGAScript

the fix/workaround is in extend_and_mount_images.sh

[ZeaMays14142]

just found this discussion after trying to understamd what i was doing wrong. are there any github repos on this still being updated??

[YT-Advanced]

just found this discussion after trying to understamd what i was doing wrong. are there any github repos on this still being updated??

The repos above are still updated

https://github.com/YT-Advanced/WSA-Script/releases/latest