Windows Templates for Packer

Introduction

This repository contains Windows templates that can be used to create boxes for Vagrant using Packer (Website) (Github).

This repo began by borrowing bits from the VeeWee Windows templates (https://github.com/jedi4ever/veewee/tree/master/templates). Modifications were made to work with Packer and the VMware Fusion provider for Packer and Vagrant.

Getting Started

This repository assumes that you have access to MSDN and can download the ISO images Microsoft makes available there.

Currently, this repo expects you to do a little heavy lifting to get the Windows ISO required to build boxes.

1. Download the Windows Server 2008 R2 with Service Pack 1 (x64) - DVD (English) ISO (en_windows_server_2008_r2_with_sp1_x64_dvd_617601.iso)
2. Verify that en_windows_server_2008_r2_with_sp1_x64_dvd_617601.iso has an MD5 hash of 8dcde01d0da526100869e2457aafb7ca (Microsoft lists a SHA1 hash of d3fd7bf85ee1d5bdd72de5b2c69a7b470733cd0a, which is equivalent)
3. Clone this repo to a local directory
4. Create a directory named iso in the root of the repo
5. Move en_windows_server_2008_r2_with_sp1_x64_dvd_617601.iso to the iso directory
6. Run packer build windows_2008_r2.json

Contributing

Pull requests welcomed. I plan to include other variants of Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 2012 next.