Windows Packer Templates

Packer templates for building base VM boxes.

Usage

Installing Packer using Chocolatey

$ cinst -y packer

Running Packer

$ git clone https://github.com/skylock/packer-windows
$ cd packer-windows
$ packer build template_name.json

If you want to build only vmware.

$ packer build -only=vmware-iso template_name.json

Windows versions

This repo contains packer templates for following Windows versions:

• Windows 2016
• Windows 2012 R2
• Windows 2012
• Windows 2008 R2
• Windows 10 x64
• Windows 10 x86
• Windows 8.1 x64
• Windows 8.1 x86
• Windows 7 x64
• Windows 7 x86

Supported versions

This templates where tested using a packer 0.8.6 and VMware Workstation 12.5 Pro.

note

Windows ISO images must be placed in iso folder and file checksums must be updated in template. This templates use MSDN iso images.

credits

These examples borrow heavily from these two fine repos:

• joefitzgerald/packer-windows
• boxcutter/windows