Packer Guide: Create a Windows VM Box

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Build Virtualbox Image for Windows 10 Using Packer

Clone packer-windows

Edit answer_files/10_1903/Autounattend.xml

Add Key for Windows 10

                 <!-- Product Key from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx -->
-                <ProductKey>NPPR9-FWDCX-D2C8J-H872K-2YT43
+                <ProductKey>
+                    <Key>KEY-CONTENT</Key>
                     <WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
                 </ProductKey>
             </UserData>

Change Language from en-US to zh-CN

             <SetupUILanguage>
-                <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
+                <UILanguage>zh-CN</UILanguage>
             </SetupUILanguage>
-            <InputLocale>en-US</InputLocale>
-            <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
-            <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
-            <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
-            <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
+            <InputLocale>zh-CN</InputLocale>
+            <SystemLocale>zh-CN</SystemLocale>
+            <UILanguage>zh-CN</UILanguage>
+            <UILanguageFallback>zh-CN</UILanguageFallback>
+            <UserLocale>zh-CN</UserLocale>

-            <SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
-            <UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
-            <UILanguageFallback>en-US</UILanguageFallback>
-            <UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
+            <SystemLocale>zh-CN</SystemLocale>
+            <UILanguage>zh-CN</UILanguage>
+            <UILanguageFallback>zh-CN</UILanguageFallback>
+            <UserLocale>zh-CN</UserLocale>

Fix issue scripts/compact.bat

-cmd /c C:\Windows\Temp\ultradefrag-portable-6.1.0.amd64\udefrag.exe --optimize --repeat C:
+start /wait  C:\Windows\Temp\ultradefrag-portable-6.1.0.amd64\udefrag.exe --optimize --repeat C:

Edit windows_10_1903.json

   "variables": {
-    "iso_url": "/Volumes/WD My Passport Ultra/Software/Microsoft/Windows/Windows 10/Win10_1903_V1_English_x64.iso",
+    "iso_url": "./iso/Win10_1903.iso",
     "iso_checksum_type": "sha1",
-    "iso_checksum": "344ca92459c23663d5f857c72a7c030f85f19be8",
+    "iso_checksum": "cf1e64128585b6ddf7cc53d91758d7b0f836b863",
     "autounattend": "answer_files/10_1903/Autounattend.xml",
     "headless": "true",
     "cpus": "2",

Download Windows Image and put it to iso folder

The latest Windows 10 image is Win10_1903_V1_Chinese\(Simplified\)_x64.iso, and rename it to Win10_1903.iso. Then put this image to iso folder.

Build Windows Virutal Box

packer build windows_10_1903.json

windows_10_1903_virtualbox.box will be generated in the root of the packer-windows

Add as a Vagrant box

vagrant box add --name windows windows_10_1903_virtualbox.box

Use vagrantfile-windows_10.template as Vagrantfile template to start a VM

  1. Create a folder
  2. Copy vagrantfile-windows_10.template into that folder and rename it to Vagrantfile
  3. Change the content of this file:
 Vagrant.require_version ">= 1.6.2"

 Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
-    config.vm.define "vagrant-windows-10-preview"
-    config.vm.box = "windows_10_preview"
+    config.vm.define "vagrant-windows"
+    config.vm.box = "windows"
     config.vm.communicator = "winrm"
  1. Start using vagrant up