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Script creation of Windows box #2
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First, I'll attempt to do this with the VirtualBox OVF builder from Packer: http://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-ovf.html And the Vagrant post-processor: |
The steps here will probably be:
This brings up the question of what we want the user experience to be. The strange thing is that an OVF should be portable (and not platform-specific) but the stupid dividing-into-parts messes things up. Maybe we should have a Linux VM in which we download and assemble the OVF and save to local. This would allow us to not care about the type of downloads, and the new sequence is:
This is about to get really interesting! |
One problem I am running into is that Packer will have no way of communicating with the box for provisioning purposes until Cygwin and SSH are installed. One possible workaround: |
Right now, we are using a handcrafted Windows box for the Grid. We are likely not authorized to distribute this box, even though it was built from completely legal images (VMs from modern.ie and freely available software like Cygwin, Cygwin packages, and fart.exe).
What we need is a way to build this box from scratch for Vagrant. Packer (http://packer.io) should enable us to do this.
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