23 May, 2009

Windows support

I was just asked about creating a VMware Studio template for Windows.

Edit July 2009: Windows 2003/2008 support is in the beta release of Studio 2.0, have at it :)


Original post:

In a nutshell...

The VMware Studio build system was architected with Windows in mind.
The XSL template necessary would create a Windows unattended install file.
VMware would have to deliver new guest software for Windows too,
though I generally build appliances without the VMware guest stack.

The PXE setup code in a Windows build profile XML reference would take a bit of
effort but is doable.

What flavour of Windows are people using for appliances?

Anyone tried unattended installs of Windows 7?

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