Windows appliance scripts for Hashicorp Packer

Introduction

This repository contains configuration files that can be used to create Windows boxes with preconfigured applications for Vagrant using Packer (Website) (Github).

This repo utilizes the packer-windows templates. The packer configuiration files are based off existing configuration files form packer-windows with the addition of scripts to install software.

These scripts are used to generate the box images on Atlas.

Prequisites

Git-Scm Virtualbox Vagrant Packer 0.5.1 or greater is required.

Building the Virtualbox image

The configurations currently support building the image locally on your machine and uploading them to Hashicorp Atlas. I am not able to use packer push due to the size of the working files when generating the image (I think). If you find out a way to do this, please contribute back to this repository.

I have only tested on Virtualbox so far:

packer build -only=virtualbox-iso win-2012r2-standard-vs2015community.json

Importing generated image into Vagrant

If you would like to test out the generated image, import the file into Vagrant:

vagrant box add win-2012r2-standard-vs2015community ./win-2012r2-standard-vs2015community_virtualbox.box

Using imported image

Out side this repository, create a new folder and instantiate the newly imported VM.

mkdir testimage; cd testimage
vagrant init win-2012r2-standard-vs2015community; vagrant up --provider virtualbox
vagrant rdp