#Vmware image builder how to#
#Vmware image builder install#
#Vmware image builder drivers#

When everything is in place вЂ¦ it is time to build the image using this command: packer build. After these actions this driver is mounted as a floppy image. The autounattend.xml also have to be edited to let this work as you can see in the screenshot below.

#Vmware image builder drivers#

I fixed this by putting this drivers in the ISO directory on my datastore. To use PVSCSI in the image the PVSCI driver has to be loaded during startup of the Virtual Machine.

#Vmware image builder install#

I fixed this by using this guide: Removing вЂњpress any keyвЂќ prompts for GPT/UEFI Windows install automation (v) The вЂњPress any key to boot from CD or DVDвЂќ prompt had to be removed. I ran into the issue that my Windows 10 ISO was not booting automatically. The Autounattend.xml in this folder is prepared to be used for an UEFI installation. You only have to enter your variables to make it work. Instead of 2 JSON files I am using one HCL file which contains all the variables, builders and provisioners.

(As of version 1.7.0, HCL2 support is no longer in beta and is the preferred way to write Packer configuration(s) instead of using JSON Files. I created this folder because I made the following enhancements: In my case the total deployment of Windows 10 with updates, Horizon Agents and OSOT took only 34 and 21 seconds.Д¬heck te files on GitHub: Update (april 2nd 2021)ДЄs you can see on my GitHub there is this folder (HCL-UEFI-PVSCI): The VM is ready to deploy to your Horizon Desktop Pool!!!! At last the VM will shut down and there will be a snapshot created by packer. The Windows 10 image will be installed with Windows Updates all the Horizon Agents and at the VMware OS Optimization Tool will seal the image. With this command you kick off the installation process. When the above has all been set up, it is finally time to start building the image.

First Logon Commands (CMD,BAT en PowerShell files which are directly after logging in the first time by AutoLogon).

The following items are controlled in this file:

#Vmware image builder how to#

If you donвЂ™t know how to do it, here is a good description: You can modify this one, or create one yourself. On my github you can find the autounattend file I created. 'destination': 'c:\temp\build\scripts\windowsupdate.ps1' PowerShell, CMD, BAT files вЂ“> Install features, Windows Updates, (Chocolatey) applications, applying settings, enabling WINRM on the endpoint so packer is able to communicateД®dit this file with your settings and save it.autonunattend.xml вЂ“> Answer file to create the Windows 10 image.Windows10.JSON вЂ“> Contains the configuration of the Virtual Machine and determines the sequence of the steps we need to create the machine fully automated.

Variables.JSON вЂ“> Contains all the variables.

To make an image with Packer a number of things are required.

When the Agents are packaged, they can be installed using the commands below. A demonstration video and a download are available here: My colleagues from RawWorks have made a very nice tool for this. But it is als possible to install this server with:ДЄfter installing the chocolatey server it is possible to install chocolatey on your endpoints by pointing to your own chocolatey server: Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force iex ((New-Object ).DownloadString(' After installing this chocolatey server we have to package applications so that they can be deployed through Chcolatey.