Back in December, I published a blog on building Windows images using Packer on Proxmox. That setup worked well, but like most things in infrastructure, you start tweaking, refining, and eventually rethinking parts of it. if you’re anything like me, this needs to work perfectly…. and that takes a lot of time. Over the past months, I’ve streamlined the entire workflow. Less friction, more consistency, and most importantly, something I can reuse across different Windows versions without thinking twice. And best of all, it’s now fully functional on Microsoft Hyper-V!
In this post, I’ll walk you through my current setup for building Windows Server images on Hyper-V using Packer. This is the version I actually use today as I moved back to Windows Hyper-V for my lab setup, not just something that works, but something that’s predictable and maintainable and was really fun to make.
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