https://github.com/shalomb/vizor

Vizor builds Windows VM Images for XCP/XenServer/CloudStack
https://github.com/shalomb/vizor

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Vizor builds Windows VM Images for XCP/XenServer/CloudStack

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/shalomb/vizor
• Owner: shalomb
• Created: 2017-06-19T00:23:26.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-03-29T20:22:35.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-01-10T14:52:38.038Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: batchfile, cloudstack, cloudstack-images, puppet-razor, ruby, vizor, vm-images, windows-vm, winpe, xapi, xenserver, xenserver-images
• Language: PowerShell
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• Size: 1.83 MB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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README

          
# About

`vizor` is a comprehensive toolset that builds upon

[PuppetLabs razor-server](https://github.com/puppetlabs/razor-server)

to automate the building of Window VMs & VM images from vanilla ISOs

using

[WinPE](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/winpe-intro)

on the following cloud platforms

- Xen Cloud Platform

- Citrix XenServer

- Apache CloudStack

- Citrix CloudPlatform

## Capabilities

* Orchestrate the building of single VMs or batches of (thousands) of VMs at a

  time using saved configurations i.e. keep the machine image catalogue

  regularly up-to-date.

* Discover and build a catalogue of Windows Installer ISOs (e.g. from a central

  CIFS/NFS share, etc) from which VMs can be built. ISOs _do not_ have to be

  copied locally and vizor can scale VM building to many thousands of ISOs

  (Windows versions, editions, langugages, etc) for datacenter needs.

* Manage multiple CloudStack/Xenserver farms as (reference) platforms on which

  VMs can be created (from ISOs) and then templated for distribution later.

* Manage catalogues of `boxes` from which VMs/VMImages can be built on any

  of the clouds/virtualization platforms known to vizor.

* A (relatively) well designed CLI interface with organized hierarchies of

  subcommands, help text, tab-completion, etc make working with `vizor` easy.

* Automated setup of the `vizor` components on a `debian` VM.

* Support building of Windows VMs for the following Windows editions

  * Windows XP

  * Windows Server 2003

  * Windows Vista

  * Windows Server 2008

  * Windows 7 (Pro, Enterprise)

  * Windows Server 2008 R2

  * Windows 8

  * Windows Server 2012

  * Windows 8.1

  * Windows Server 2016

  * Windows 10

* Allow for overlaying language packs on top of existing `box` definitions

  i.e. reuse base box definition with multiple different language overlays.

* Injection of a

  [Powershell Provisioning Abstraction](razor/task/winpe.task/nodeprep-full.seq.ps1.erb#L33)

  that is able to re-use functionality from PowerShell Modules and apply that

  to the machine in task/sequence form until the sequence is fully complete. The

  sequence application is idempotent and survives multiple reboots.

* Fully automated (and extensible) end-to-end provisioning of the windows OS

  using the Powershell Provisioning Abstraction.

  * Windows Base OS Installation

  * Language Pack Installations

  * i18n Settings

  * Timezone and NTP configuration

  * Windows Updates (Repeated)

  * KMS License Configuration

  * Windows Activation Configuration

  * Windows Defender Definitions Updates and Scans

  * Multiple DotNet Framework Installations

  * Paravirtualization Driver Installations

  * Screen Resolution Settings (For XenServer and/or Cloudstack/Xenserver)

  * Local User Account Management

  * (User Defined) Startup Script Injection

  * Disk Defragmenter Tasks

  * Group policy (non-domain joined) definitions

  * NGen Optimization of .Net images

  * Startup Tasks Management (Scripts, Services, etc)

  * VM Image Optimizations

  * BGInfo Settings

## Usage

Please refer to the [doc/](doc/) directory for extended documentation on

pre-requisites, installation and setup, usage, etc.

As the documentation is pandoc-generated HTML, it is best viewed offline

starting at the [index](doc/index.md).

## License

vizor VM builder

Copyright (C) 2012,  Shalom Bhooshi

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program. If not, see .