To do this in Packer, you can mount these on the virtual machine via a floppy drive. All of these options can be set in the autounattend.xml file, which needs to be located on a removable drive. By default, when you boot to a Windows OS installation disk, Windows will prompt the user with installation options, such as choosing the disk to install Windows to.
It is important to note that this is not specific to Packer, as anyone can use this to automate Windows installation. Perhaps the most important aspect of automating a Windows OS installation is the autounattend.xml file. I will use one of Stefan’s Packer templates for Windows 10 to illustrate how Packer works with Windows. In these two repositories you will find great examples of how Windows builds are automated using a combination of tools. The best resource I have found for using Packer with Windows is Stefan Scherer’s Github repository which is a fork of Joe Fitzgerald’s repository. When learning a new technology, I find that looking at examples of how others use it is very helpful. In addition, Packer supports the creation of both Linux and Windows images, allowing for a single method for image creation. The specialty of Packer is the ability to create an artifact to multiple platforms (AWS, Azure, VMware etc.), all from one configuration. In this article, I will focus on how Packer is used for Windows OS image creation.Īs I wrote in a previous article, Packer is a Hashicorp, open-sourced operating system image build tool.
While it supports Windows and Linux, creating an OS image is vastly different between the two.
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