Without knowing much about Windows, especially on AWS. But if I would try the same I would follow the following pattern.
Manually setup an EC2 with windows and enable WinRM. These things must go into a user-script. Verify that I can connect with WinRM from the host that will run Packer. Use a static security group allowing this. Code the settings that was manually verified into a Packer template. Run that with PACKER_LOG=1 and -on-error=ask to allow you to manually try to connect if Packer fails and see a lot of details of what Packer actually do. If you get stuck, post a template.json and additional scripts that you have tried here and ask for help. I assume you have found http://engineering.daptiv.com/provisioning-windows-instances-with-packer-vagrant-and-chef-in-aws/ On 2 November 2016 at 18:11, Chris Forbes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've only been using Packer for a few weeks now for setting up our > infrastructure in AWS. We are using it in conjunction with Terraform and > it's going great... for Linux. I've started looking into creating the > Windows machines that we unfortunately still need, and I'm having a lot of > trouble. I've followed along with numerous different blog posts on how to > actually get WinRM to work properly with no luck. I'm still stuck on the > WinRM timeout issue. > > Is there a definitive guide out there for creating a simple Windows AMI on > AWS with Packer? Or does anyone have a Git repo that I can simply change > the source AMI and run without any hitches? > > Any help would be appreciated! > > Chris > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in > violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing > list. > > GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues > IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Packer" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/packer-tool/afa18d28-a0bc-41d3-8c9f-9f1e6279121d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/afa18d28-a0bc-41d3-8c9f-9f1e6279121d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt9pFMNQtk7Ou-0hCyY_AKvD5zT9%2Bb7qp_%2BRsj%2BbMpq70g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
