I successfully built a vmware-based Windows 7 base image by doing the following:
Inserted the following entry in the OS table:
+----+------------+------------------+---------+-------------+---------------+----------+
| id | name | prettyname | type | installtype | sourcepath |
moduleid |
+----+------------+------------------+---------+-------------+---------------+----------+
| 36 | vmwarewin7 | VMware Windows 7 | windows | vmware | vmware_images |
7 |
+----+------------+------------------+---------+-------------+---------------+----------+
In my case, moduleid 7 is the os_winvista module, which worked fine since
Windows 7 is based off the Vista engine.
Followed procedure at
http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Create+a+Windows+Base+Image
Also had to do the following in the image itself:
- Disable UAC by going to User Accounts, select Change User Account Control
settings, and moving slider to Never Notify.
- Remove IPv6 and tunneling network adapters by disabling the IPHelper service,
modifying the adapter properties by unchecking IPv6, uninstalling the 2
discovery services, and deleting the tunnel adapters in Device Manager.
- After running cywin-sshd-config.sh, do:
- cygrunsrv --stop sshd
- exit cygwin shell
- cd c:\cygwin\bin
- ash
- /usr/bin/rebaseall
- exit
- cd c:\cygwin
- cygwin.bat
- cygrunsrv --start sshd
(This was necessary to get cygwin to work properly.)
- Disable scheduled defrag.
I haven't built a bare-metal version, but seems like that should work as well.
Mike Waldron
Systems Specialist
ITS Research Computing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509
Office: 919-962-9778
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Herling [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Windows 7 support
I am looking for any documentation on building a windows 7 base image. Any
and all help is greatly appreciated!
Roger Herling
Sr. Desktop Administrator
Marist College
PH: 845-575-3347
