Squip Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Has anyone tried to create a Win7 master image from a Hyper-V VM to be deployed to a physical machine? It would be very useful just for the snapshot aspect (would save a world of bother if sysprep failed etc). I am having a go at it now but would appreciate any comments from anyone that has tried this before?
ChrisH Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 It's worth the time to learn MDT to help you. This book Deployment Fundamentals, Vol. 3: Deploying Windows 7 Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 eBook: Chris Nackers, Mikael Nyström, Johan Arwidmark: Amazon.co.uk: Books is well worth the purchase at that price as it will basically tell you how to do it from scratch with some good custom scripts etc. Don't worry about it talking about SCCM as that is just the later chapters, just concentrate on the parts about making the reference image.
TechSupp Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 Not used HyperV but just created our W7 master image using VirtualBox and its worked really well. Allowed me to test things and creatdx snap shots at variuos points...just in case.
steewy Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 I would recommend to use VmWare... It's really reliable and you can manage the screenshot pretty easily.
Squip Posted July 9, 2013 Author Posted July 9, 2013 It's worth the time to learn MDT to help you. This book Deployment Fundamentals, Vol. 3: Deploying Windows 7 Using System Center Configuration Manager 2007 eBook: Chris Nackers, Mikael Nyström, Johan Arwidmark: Amazon.co.uk: Books is well worth the purchase at that price as it will basically tell you how to do it from scratch with some good custom scripts etc. Don't worry about it talking about SCCM as that is just the later chapters, just concentrate on the parts about making the reference image. We are already using MDT. Thanks for the pointers guys, I will give it a go and see what happens!
ChrisH Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 We are already using MDT. Thanks for the pointers guys, I will give it a go and see what happens! In that case the recipe in that book will help you use MDT to automate the build of a reference image. I have used hyper-v, VMware and virtual box to make images, they are all as good as each other pretty much but my only tip would be to avoid installing the tool sets on some of them and extract the drivers from them to use on your VM.
TheScarfedOne Posted July 9, 2013 Posted July 9, 2013 I used VMware.. and let the patching process keel it up to date.
steewy Posted July 10, 2013 Posted July 10, 2013 In that case the recipe in that book will help you use MDT to automate the build of a reference image. I have used hyper-v, VMware and virtual box to make images, they are all as good as each other pretty much but my only tip would be to avoid installing the tool sets on some of them and extract the drivers from them to use on your VM. That is true ! I use VmWare and I never installed the Vm Tools to make sure that my image stays as clean as possible.
mrstrong Posted July 10, 2013 Posted July 10, 2013 (edited) Hi TechSupp / MordyT could you give more details as I'm trying to create an image in virtualbox, At the moment I've got win 7 installed in a vm, not on the domain and with guest additions, my plan is now to take a snapshot, sysprep, and capture. Do I need an unattend.xml created from WSIM ? I was just looking at a post from Michael where he uses mysysprep2 http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/72811-auto-join-domain-using-sysprep-windows-7-a-3.html Edited July 10, 2013 by mrstrong
MordyT Posted July 10, 2013 Posted July 10, 2013 Hi TechSupp / MordyT could you give more details as I'm trying to create an image in virtualbox, At the moment I've got win 7 installed in a vm, not on the domain and with guest additions, my plan is now to take a snapshot, sysprep, and capture. Do I need an unattend.xml created from WSIM ? I was just looking at a post from Michael where he uses mysysprep2 http://www.edugeek.net/forums/windows-7/72811-auto-join-domain-using-sysprep-windows-7-a-3.html I use mdt2012, so in my case, build VM, snapshot, capture (MDT has a script built in) revert and then I can update down the line, capture, repeat.
TechSupp Posted July 10, 2013 Posted July 10, 2013 Not gone the mdt route as I dont image PC's offen enough to warrant the time spent setting it up etc so I just use Clonezilla for our needs and it has been fine so far. First year I have used VirtualBox though to create the master image, been well worth it so far.
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