RE: Windows Template Question

2014-07-10 Thread John Muckley
I did indeed Sysprep it, yes. I sysprep with /oobe /generalize /shutdown and /unattend -Original Message- From: Timothy Lothering [mailto:tlother...@datacentrix.co.za] Sent: 10 July 2014 12:57 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: Windows Template Question Hi John, Did you

Re: Windows Template Question

2014-07-10 Thread Nux!
Hi, That is just normal behaviour with sysprepped Windows. You can't speed this process much. My templates exhibit the same issue. If you don't sysprep the templates, you'll end up with other (more serious) problems. Yes, Windows sucks. :-) HTH Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using

RE: Windows Template Question

2014-07-10 Thread Geoff Higginbottom
Geoff Higginbottom D: +44 20 3603 0542 | S: +44 20 3603 0540 | M: +447968161581 geoff.higginbot...@shapeblue.com -Original Message- From: John Muckley [mailto:j.muck...@databax.com] Sent: 10 July 2014 16:38 To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: RE: Windows Template Question I did indeed

Re: Windows Template Question

2014-07-10 Thread ilya musayev
I'm with Lucian, this is general windows issue - you cant do anything faster. Sysprep will take what it takes and its nothing to do with CloudStack. Unless you don't have windows AD - and dont care about unique SIDs, then you could just clone windows VMs as is, but you should not have any

Re: Windows Template Question

2014-07-10 Thread Kirk Kosinski
: Windows Template Question Hi John, Did you sysprep the VM template? Kind Regards, Timothy Lothering -Original Message- From: John Muckley [mailto:j.muck...@databax.com] Sent: 10 July 2014 01:31 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: Windows Template Question Hello