[Solved] Beta 2: avast NG

[Andrey,pro]

Did a clean install, but I don't see any web browsers icons on desktop to test avast NG, what's wrong?

Here is ngtool.log:

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19.09.2014 22:04:42.304 | Creating snapshot...
19.09.2014 22:06:15.125 | Volume shadow set: {d7a67353-e61e-442a-89b3-3fe60802054d}
19.09.2014 22:06:15.125 | BCD volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy17
19.09.2014 22:06:15.125 | Windows volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy18
19.09.2014 22:06:15.171 | Creating new hive files...
19.09.2014 22:12:57.899 | error: ngtool.exe (regbuilder) exited with error: 0x0000007b
19.09.2014 22:12:58.133 | CmdAvastInstallWrapper done (result: 0x0000007b)
19.09.2014 22:13:55.385 | Creating new hive files...
19.09.2014 22:19:54.547 | Cloning NTFS volumes...
19.09.2014 22:21:11.704 | 19.09.2014 22:21:11.704 | 19.09.2014 22:21:11.720 | Creating a new VM machine...
19.09.2014 22:21:17.461 | Starting VM machine to create initial snapshot, it can take a couple of minutes...
19.09.2014 22:31:09.631 | OK
19.09.2014 22:31:21.737 | New Ng_250f5d95-b76e-4d30-83cc-f9a7279d5295 machine has been created, uuid: a90453da-0634-4205-ad0e-034a440adad5
19.09.2014 22:31:22.704 | New Ng_8003ba58-49ae-4ab1-83af-648c0d32ee0d machine has been created, uuid: 8e9ef051-4352-4d99-b5e6-106e50951e66
19.09.2014 22:31:23.687 | New Ng_c4a613a6-92ed-4be5-a828-f340d901a03b machine has been created, uuid: 05793fb5-8f1d-4996-ae9a-c096d07b392a
19.09.2014 22:31:23.812 | CmdAvastRepairWrapper done (result: 0x00000000)
Windows 7 Starter,
AMD C-50 processor

[Andrey,pro]

I did some research and found that ngtool.exe is a command-line tool.
I tried this command to reinstall integrated NG environment:

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ngtool.exe avast reinstalland got this error:

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C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Avast\ng>ngtool.exe avast reinstall
CmdAvastUninstallWrapper done
Installing VirtualBox...
Creating snapshot...
Volume shadow set: {17fbe114-728b-404c-84be-6a67d99abf3d}
BCD volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy23
Windows volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy24
Creating new hive files...
ERROR: Opening source hive failed. hr=123{?????????????? ?????? ? ????? ?????, ?
???? ????? ??? ????? ????.}, path=\\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy
24\Users\\NTUSER.DAT.
ERROR: Hive cant be generated. res=123{?????????????? ?????? ? ????? ?????, ????
? ????? ??? ????? ????.}, name=NTUSER.DAT.
error: ngtool.exe (regbuilder) exited with error: 0x0000007b
CmdAvastInstallWrapper done (result: 0x0000007b)
CmdAvastReinstallWrapper done (result: 0x0000007b)According to this error message there is something wrong while creating new hive files...

Today I deleted all files from C:\ProgramData\AVAST Software\Avast\ng\
and there is no any errors in ngtool.log:

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20.09.2014 11:57:57.659 | Installing VirtualBox...
20.09.2014 11:58:01.949 | Creating snapshot...
20.09.2014 11:58:23.696 | .20.09.2014 11:58:24.210 | .20.09.2014 11:58:24.725 | .20.09.2014 11:58:25.318 | .20.09.2014 11:58:25.833 | .20.09.2014 11:58:26.363 | .20.09.2014 11:58:26.878 | .20.09.2014 11:58:27.393 | .20.09.2014 11:58:27.908 | .20.09.2014 11:58:28.485 | .20.09.2014 11:58:29.000 | .20.09.2014 11:58:29.608 | .20.09.2014 11:58:30.326 | .20.09.2014 11:58:30.872 | .20.09.2014 11:58:31.386 |  waiting for progress really helped.
20.09.2014 11:59:03.971 | Volume shadow set: {893ad3c2-8a7a-4e74-8f23-07bbba5b0659}
20.09.2014 11:59:03.971 | BCD volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy34
20.09.2014 11:59:03.971 | Windows volume: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy35
20.09.2014 11:59:04.845 | Creating new hive files...
20.09.2014 12:05:04.114 | Cloning NTFS volumes...
20.09.2014 12:06:42.363 | 20.09.2014 12:06:42.363 | 20.09.2014 12:06:42.409 | Creating a new VM machine...
20.09.2014 12:06:48.166 | Starting VM machine to create initial snapshot, it can take a couple of minutes...
20.09.2014 12:18:50.153 | OK
20.09.2014 12:19:07.492 | New Ng_fcc550c5-4319-4cc6-bb15-4e893fca2b6e machine has been created, uuid: 0869ac1d-1838-4209-9270-5bccd9e2d2b9
20.09.2014 12:19:09.353 | New Ng_f1fd72fc-a7aa-4f71-96fc-791c7aa8e296 machine has been created, uuid: 51ec53fa-e9f2-4a51-8c25-d4738ffe6628
20.09.2014 12:19:11.031 | New Ng_2e2665ee-712e-4226-9358-2011e9f747ce machine has been created, uuid: c277e33b-a4ca-46d9-963e-70831f3e16c6
20.09.2014 12:19:11.162 | CmdAvastRepairWrapper done (result: 0x00000000)

Got it!
If you want to execute file in NG machine here is an example:

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Usage: ngtool exec <machine> [commands] <guest-path> <arguments>
    Eg: ngtool exec Ng1 c:\windows\system32\calc.exe
     <machine>     name of the machine
     -wait         waits for process to finish
     -instrumented run process instrumented
     -inet         wait for internet connectivity
     -copy         copy executable file if missing on guest
     <guest-path>  path valid on guest which will be queried.
     <arguments>   arguments of the executed process.
Though I haven't got web browser's icons on desktop, I have a working NG environment