vbox-builder

Tool for building VirtualBox images.

Some pieces to this repo has been borrowed from Windows Templates for Packer.

The following software will be installed on the virtual machine:

• 7-Zip
• Sysinternals Suite
• Firefox
• Python
• Git for Windows
• VS Code
• IntelliJ IDEA
• Maven

Prerequisites

• packer should be installed and the packer directory should be added to the search path
• VirtualBox
• Python 2.7.x
• Download Windows 10 Enterprise Evaluation Copy from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise?i=1 and save it in ./iso

Create Virtual Machine

The following command will create a Windows 10 virtual machine

$ python run_packer.py --username myUser --password myPassword

The --no-updates argument will skip the installation of Windows updates and can be used to speed up the creation of a virtual machine.

$ python run_packer.py --username myUser --password myPassword --no-updates