Running Windows Omnis on Mac?

[Clifford Ilkay]

Now I understand. I use Packer <https://www.packer.io/> to create machine
images so I'm never doing manual installs anyway. Between VMware (Fusion
and ESXi 5, 5.5, and 6), Hyper-V, and VirtualBox, Hyper-V is the easiest
but it's only so because I generate the Hyper-V images from VirtualBox
images. VirtualBox is easy to automate with something like Packer or even a
shell script. Until I was faced with the requirement to generate VM images
for ESXi, I was using a BASH script to take a Debian netinstall ISO image
and making my customizations to it to generate my custom base image. That
base image has to be customized by users using a simple web application
where they enter in things like database connection credentials, networking
info, and specify whether they want to use the self-signed SSL certificates
that are generated within the VM or install their own certs. I give them
the option of installing the root CA certificate into their trust store so
that the self-signed certs can be treated like any other. That is perfectly
fine for a LAN.

For Windows installs, I use Chocolatey, a package manager that makes
Windows bearable. My goal is to always have the virtual machine images
generated using Packer and the ongoing configuration management being
handled by SaltStack. If I am doing ad hoc configurations or installations,
it means that I haven't captured that in code. That means what I just did
isn't easily repeatable. All the Packer and SaltStack stuff is kept under
revision control in Git.

Regards,

Clifford Ilkay

+1 647-778-8696

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 6:55 PM, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com> wrote:

> if you want win10.  you have to download the ISO.
>
> with virtualbox, you find it on microsoft site, download it and set it up
>
> with parallels, you just say ‘I want win 10’ and you get it.  They’ve
> automated the process.  Parallels does the download -or- you could use the
> iso that you already found.
>
>
> with virtual box, it doesn’t support mac VM’s as well.   you have to go
> find the ISO for the installer.
> in parallels, you create an OSX virtual machine and it pulls everything
> from the installer partition — its smoother.
>
>
> I”m not afraid of ISO’s.         I have a bunch of them because I’ve
> looked and saved.
>
>
> Parallels makes setup of a current VM easier, thats all.   click a button
> and go have a coffee or tea
>
>
>
>
> Doug Easterbrook
> Arts Management Systems Ltd.
> mailto:doug at artsman.com
> http://www.artsman.com
> Phone (403) 650-1978
>
>
>
>
> see you at the third annual users conference
> https://tickets.proctors.org/TheatreManager/95/online?performance=29086 <
> https://tickets.proctors.org/TheatreManager/95/online?performance=29086>
>
> > On Jan 9, 2018, at 4:38 PM, Clifford Ilkay <cilkay at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 5:36 PM, Doug Easterbrook <doug at artsman.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> hi David.
> >>
> >> Also using Parallels (paid, effectively $39 a year) and Virtualbox
> (free)
> >>
> >> I was pissed at Parallels for the $39 a year update (since its a new
> >> version each time), but I manage to stretch it over 2 versions and am
> >> really only about $20 a year).
> >>
> >>
> >> Virtualbox ..  its good, but:
> >> not as smooth at parallels.
> >> not as fast as parallels.
> >> not as easy to set up a VM as parallels  (parallels, you just say what
> you
> >> want,   in virtual box you have to go find the .iso file)
> >
> >
> > I'm pretty sure you know how to use Finder, Spotlight, or a shell to find
> > a file so I'm missing what you're saying. How is having to find the ISO
> > file such a big deal? I find files on my systems many times a day. :)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Clifford Ilkay
> >
> > +1 647-778-8696
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