I successfully built a vmware-based Windows 7 base image by doing the following:
Inserted the following entry in the OS table: +----+------------+------------------+---------+-------------+---------------+----------+ | id | name | prettyname | type | installtype | sourcepath | moduleid | +----+------------+------------------+---------+-------------+---------------+----------+ | 36 | vmwarewin7 | VMware Windows 7 | windows | vmware | vmware_images | 7 | +----+------------+------------------+---------+-------------+---------------+----------+ In my case, moduleid 7 is the os_winvista module, which worked fine since Windows 7 is based off the Vista engine. Followed procedure at http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/VCL/Create+a+Windows+Base+Image Also had to do the following in the image itself: - Disable UAC by going to User Accounts, select Change User Account Control settings, and moving slider to Never Notify. - Remove IPv6 and tunneling network adapters by disabling the IPHelper service, modifying the adapter properties by unchecking IPv6, uninstalling the 2 discovery services, and deleting the tunnel adapters in Device Manager. - After running cywin-sshd-config.sh, do: - cygrunsrv --stop sshd - exit cygwin shell - cd c:\cygwin\bin - ash - /usr/bin/rebaseall - exit - cd c:\cygwin - cygwin.bat - cygrunsrv --start sshd (This was necessary to get cygwin to work properly.) - Disable scheduled defrag. I haven't built a bare-metal version, but seems like that should work as well. Mike Waldron Systems Specialist ITS Research Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill CB #3420, ITS Manning, Rm 2509 Office: 919-962-9778 -----Original Message----- From: Roger Herling [mailto:roger.herl...@marist.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 11:20 AM To: vcl-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Windows 7 support I am looking for any documentation on building a windows 7 base image. Any and all help is greatly appreciated! Roger Herling Sr. Desktop Administrator Marist College PH: 845-575-3347