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I believe you can do packer/terraform with vsphere and if you just do stand-alone it’s free
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@Leee Jeffries ⤴️
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Nutanix CE with PC should enable the Nutanix based packer solution
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Windows 10 Hyper-V
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@James Rankin so I take it you install full win 10 on the host and take it from there?
@Benjamin Crill Would have limitations though? think max 16 GB ram so I would lose out…
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Packer for XenServer. https://github.com/xenserver/packer-plugin-xenserver You can pretty much use whatever you like. Hyper-V is the simplest solution as you can run it all locally, Nutanix CE is great but you are limited on resources.
Sorry, use this link instead, more up to date. https://github.com/ddelnano/packer-plugin-xenserver
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I saw this before but no indication that is support Windows builds... all I could find were Linux based builders
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I have a Windows 10 box for my lab with client side Hyper-V and Packer builds work great (unless you want Windows 11)
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any probs with win11? I have win 11 on my laptop with Hyper-V... maybe I can test it there before changing my hypervisor on my physical host/server
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I can't get Windows 11 VMs to build on Hyper-V in Packer because there appears to be no support for the TPM switch
Haven't tried the Hyper-V for Windows 11 but assume it would be exactly the same
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(as in it works great unless you want Win11 guests)
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Gotcha
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You can still build Win11 guests, just not through Packer currently (although it may have been fixed and I haven't noticed)
Happy to share some HCL files for Win10 or Server OSes if you want (although mine are all mostly stolen from GitHub anyway)
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Yes please - anything to get me started would be great - cheers🍺
want to do a chocolatey server too...
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I have a Chocolatey server - man that was a mission to set up
IIS is what I run it on
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So I thought.... wanted to do winget initially but it doesn't come native on server OS so I wanted something more cross-platform hence Choco...
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WinGet is a bit crap
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I really should write a blog post on creating the Chocolatey server
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Might do it over the weekend
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yeah it's a work in progress..
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i've got some primers on Packer on my blog, based on vSphere , but if you want an explanation on how to use scripts to further automate post build stuff , you may find my posts useful https://getvpro.wordpress.com/2022/02/10/windows-build-automation-w-packer-powershell-2022-redux/
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I use vCenter / ESXi. I pay $200 a year for the VMUG program. Not free, but I consider it a career investment
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Cheers Owen - will have a look 🍺
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