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ISOs _do not_ have to be\n  copied locally and vizor can scale VM building to many thousands of ISOs\n  (Windows versions, editions, langugages, etc) for datacenter needs.\n* Manage multiple CloudStack/Xenserver farms as (reference) platforms on which\n  VMs can be created (from ISOs) and then templated for distribution later.\n* Manage catalogues of `boxes` from which VMs/VMImages can be built on any\n  of the clouds/virtualization platforms known to vizor.\n* A (relatively) well designed CLI interface with organized hierarchies of\n  subcommands, help text, tab-completion, etc make working with `vizor` easy.\n* Automated setup of the `vizor` components on a `debian` VM.\n* Support building of Windows VMs for the following Windows editions\n  * Windows XP\n  * Windows Server 2003\n  * Windows Vista\n  * Windows Server 2008\n  * Windows 7 (Pro, Enterprise)\n  * Windows Server 2008 R2\n  * Windows 8\n  * Windows Server 2012\n  * Windows 8.1\n  * Windows Server 2016\n  * Windows 10\n* Allow for overlaying language packs on top of existing `box` definitions\n  i.e. reuse base box definition with multiple different language overlays.\n* Injection of a\n  [Powershell Provisioning Abstraction](razor/task/winpe.task/nodeprep-full.seq.ps1.erb#L33)\n  that is able to re-use functionality from PowerShell Modules and apply that\n  to the machine in task/sequence form until the sequence is fully complete. The\n  sequence application is idempotent and survives multiple reboots.\n* Fully automated (and extensible) end-to-end provisioning of the windows OS\n  using the Powershell Provisioning Abstraction.\n  * Windows Base OS Installation\n  * Language Pack Installations\n  * i18n Settings\n  * Timezone and NTP configuration\n  * Windows Updates (Repeated)\n  * KMS License Configuration\n  * Windows Activation Configuration\n  * Windows Defender Definitions Updates and Scans\n  * Multiple DotNet Framework Installations\n  * Paravirtualization Driver Installations\n  * Screen Resolution Settings (For XenServer and/or Cloudstack/Xenserver)\n  * Local User Account Management\n  * (User Defined) Startup Script Injection\n  * Disk Defragmenter Tasks\n  * Group policy (non-domain joined) definitions\n  * NGen Optimization of .Net images\n  * Startup Tasks Management (Scripts, Services, etc)\n  * VM Image Optimizations\n  * BGInfo Settings\n\n## Usage\n\nPlease refer to the [doc/](doc/) directory for extended documentation on\npre-requisites, installation and setup, usage, etc.\n\nAs the documentation is pandoc-generated HTML, it is best viewed offline\nstarting at the [index](doc/index.md).\n\n## License\nvizor VM builder\n\nCopyright (C) 2012,  Shalom Bhooshi\n\nThis program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify\nit under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by\nthe Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or\n(at your option) any later version.\n\nThis program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,\nbut WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of\nMERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the\nGNU General Public License for more details.\n\nYou should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License\nalong with this program. If not, see \u003chttp://www.gnu.org/licenses/\u003e.\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fshalomb%2Fvizor","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fshalomb%2Fvizor","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fshalomb%2Fvizor/lists"}