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While Windows guests look interesting how are people going to get the initial box? Is every individual or organization going to have to create their own box or
by jareds 12y ago
While Windows guests look interesting how are people going to get the initial box? Is every individual or organization going to have to create their own box or will there be some way to get a box if you are part of MSDN?
- bingaling 12y agoperhaps the modern.ie dev vms could be boxed up http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads http://modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads
- tomswartz07 12y agoFor what it's worth, the same guy makes Packer, a tool to create your own boxes. https://github.com/mitchellh/packer https://github.com/mitchellh/packer It even allows you to replace the functionality of Vagrant - in place- to create, spin up, and provision the box all in one command. It's super awesome.
- mitchellh 12y agoYou have to acquire an ISO in some legal way yourself. Then, you can use something like packer-windows which has pre-built templates for various versions of Windows to build Vagrant-compatible boxes in about 10 minutes: https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows It isn't as easy as "download pre-built Linux box" but for environments that are using Windows, this workflow has been amazing for them above what they used to do, and is quite fast.
- jareds 12y agoThanks, I'm going to give this a look since you can use the trial ISO's.