This section describes additional software which is required to build an Windows Image.
Windows ADK
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows® 8 is required to build your own answer files for auto unattended Windows installation.
You can dowload it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652.
PuTTY
PuTTY is a useful tool to manage your Linux boxes via SSH.
You can download it from http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html.
Windows Server 2012 ISO image
We use the following Windows installation images:
Windows Server 2008 R2
Image Name: 7601.17514.101119-1850_x64fre_server_eval_en-us-GRMSXEVAL_EN_DVD.iso
URL: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11093
Windows Server 2012
Image Name: 9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-HRM_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.iso
URL: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/evalcenter/hh670538.aspx?ocid=&wt.mc_id=TEC_108_1_33
VirtIO Red Hat drivers ISO image
Warning
Please, choose stable version instead of latest, We’ve got errors with unstable drivers during guest unattended install.
Download drivers from http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/virtio-win/stable/
Floppy Image With Unattended File
Run following commands as root:
Create emtpy floppy image in your home folder
># dd bs=512 count=2880 \ if=/dev/zero of=~/floppy.img \ mkfs.msdos ~/floppy.img
Mount the image to /media/floppy
># mkdir /media/floppy mount -o loop \ ~/floppy.img /media/floppy
Download autounattend.xml file from https://raw.github.com/stackforge/murano-deployment/master/image-builder/share/files/ws-2012-std/autounattend.xml
># cd ~ ># wget https://raw.github.com/stackforge/murano-deployment\ /master/image-builder/share/files/ws-2012-std/autounattend.xml
Copy our autounattend.xml to /media/floppy
># cp ~/autounattend.xml /media/floppy
Unmount the image
># umount /media/floppy
