I understand that, but it still strikes me as quite surprising that there are so many Windows VMs posted on the vagrant cloud which do not have this basic functionality. My impression from most of them is that they are trial editions - this would be fine for testing purposes, which is what I need in this context (as I would imagine most people would also). Having to manually enter some license key on the initial boot up would be a painful deviation from the otherwise seamless bootstrap process, so I am hoping to hear from someone that they have managed to get around this limitation using a public image.
Thanks On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 7:01:07 PM UTC-7, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote: > > Hello > > Please take into consideration that Windows is a paid and licensed > product, so is not something that you can/should freely re-distribute. > > What I have seen in some of those boxes, is they create them without a > CD-KEY or they clean out the Key before creating the box image. > > This mean, that on the first boot, on the gui/console you may get a nice > welcome banner to insert/write your key and/or click on those license > validations scripts and/or validate online > > so is not as simple as you expect I am afraid. > > Alvaro. > > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Jake Feasel <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I am searching for a box available on https://vagrantcloud.com/ that >> makes use of the built-in Windows support in Vagrant 1.6. Specifically, I >> would like to find an Windows Server (either 2012 or 2008) that I can get >> running with three core commands: >> >> vagrant init <boxid> >> vagrant up >> vagrant rdp >> >> The end result is that I have an RDP session into this guest VM. So far I >> have tried this with several boxes, and have been unsuccessful with each >> one: >> >> kensykora/windows_2012_r2_standard >> reidmv/win-2008r2-standard-amd64-nocm >> ferventcoder/win2008r2-x64-nocm >> >> emyl/win2008r2 >> >> Has anyone been successful in doing this seemingly-simple and >> commonly-needed task? >> >> Thanks, >> Jake Feasel >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Vagrant" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vagrant" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
