evonz-mx / packer-win10-basebox

Build a basic Windows 10 image for use with Vagrant.

Windows 10 template for Packer

Based on https://github.com/StefanScherer/packer-windows
which is forked from https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows

Prebuilt images here: https://app.vagrantup.com/baunegaard

Setup

Requires:

• Windows 10 ISO - (Drop into ./iso folder)
• mkisofs.exe if building Hyper-V (Drop into root folder)

To use the default settings, execute from repo root:

• Windows: build_windows_10.bat <vm_type>
• Linux / OSX: ./build_windows_10.sh <vm_type>

<vm_type> Can be either vmware, virtualbox or parallels.
For Generation 2 Hyper-V run build_windows_10_hyperv.bat

Information:

The following variables can be modified in the build script:

• iso_url - Path to ISO file.
• iso_checksum - Checksum of ISO file.
• disk_size - Max size in MB of dynamic hard drive file.
• switch_name - The virtual switch name. Only available in Hyper-V build script.

The result output will be a box file named: windows_10_<vm_type>.box

Newest availble guest tools will be fetched and installed for VMware and Virtualbox.
For Parallels, the guest tools of the version you are building with is installed.

Microsoft updates are enabled and all available Windows updates will be installed on setup.

The script will adjust the following settings for Vagrant compatibility:

• WinRM service configured and started automatically.
• 32 & 64 bit Powershell execution policy set to RemoteSigned.
• UAC disabled.
• RDP enabled.
• Networks set to private.
• Hibernation disabled.
• Screensaver disabled.
• Automatic logon enabled.
• Default admin user: vagrant
• Default admin password: vagrant