Moving from Windows 10 to Windows 11 Hurdle 1 (Firmware and boot issues) My first thoughts were it should be ‘only’ switching the iso-file right?… and you can guess, I was WRONG!!! This blog will go about what I needed to change before I got everything creating fine. Just hold myself from the Windows 11 Preview version, because most of the time it is not the final RTM (Release to Manufacturing) or GA (General Availability) version. Windows 11 was announced for the 5th of October 2021 and got my fully optimized VMware Horizon – Windows 10 VDI image ready at the end August. It is in my nature to discover new things and went for creating my images with “HCL2” and WinRM (PowerShell Remoting) scripts. What I heard is that HCL2 should be more feature proof/ready, but was really in doubt what to do, because most of the blogs were written in JSON. I found out that you have two ‘scripting’ languages, one is based on “JSON” and the other one is based on HasiCorp’s own coding language called “HCL2”.
A lot of the vCommunity members wrote blogs about this image creation with Packer, so in this blog I don’t want to spend too much time how to create an image with Packer.Īfter reading some background information about creating images with Packer. Not so long a ago I wanted to switch my Windows 10 image creation based on Microsoft MDT and in-guest PowerShell scripts to HasiCorp Packer on my VMware vSphere and Horizon homelab environment.