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Creating Windows Base Images Using Packer and Boxstarter — Hurry Up and Wait!

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  • Author: Matt Wrock
  • Full Title: Creating Windows Base Images Using Packer and Boxstarter — Hurry Up and Wait!
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  • URL: http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/creating-windows-base-images-for-virtualbox-and-hyper-v-using-packer-boxstarter-and-vagrant

Highlights

  • High level tool chain overview (View Highlight)
  • Here is a synopsis of what this post will walk through: Downloading free evaluation ISOs (180 day) of Windows Using a Packer template To load the ISO in a VirtualBox VM and customize using a Windows Autounattend.xml file. Optimize the image with Boxstarter, installing all windows updates, and shrinking as much as possible. Output a vagrant .box file for creating new VirtualBox VMs with this image. Sharing the box with others using Atlas.Hashicorp.com (View Highlight)