I am primarily a linux user and I'm still stuck on Windows 7. But Icreate Win7 virtual machinesin both vmware and virtualbox by putting an autounattend.xml file on an image of a diskette. In both vmware and virtualbox, you can create a virtual diskette drive and point it at the image file. Then when you boot, the Windows installer sees the answer file on the diskette and proceeds with the install. I created the image of the diskette with the dd command in linux. I can tell you how to do that or even send you a blank diskette image if you'd like. It would be interesting to see what Windows would do if you double clicked on a file that was an image of a diskette. I don't know if Windows would know what to do with that. Linux does, of course. And if you already had a Windows virtual machine, you could make it think the image was a diskette drive and then copy your answer file to the diskette image. But right off hand, I don't know how you'd get an autounattend.xml file onto an image of a diskette on a real Windows machine. On 12/06/2015 01:30 PM, Katherine Moss wrote:
Hi all, I've been looking at this for a bit and I can't find anything definitive. I'm trying to do the following: Create an autounattend.xml file via Windows SIM that covers all passes of the Windows installation Use my newly created file in order to install one of my Virtual machines (I don't care about capturing an image, for this is just so that I don't need to go through all of the steps manually, and so that I do not require the assistance of a sighted individual (sysprep and image capture will come later with SCCM) Ensure that Hyper-V will recognize the file (the question is where to place the file so that it is automatically discovered by Windows setup, since the use of a virtual rather than a physical machine seems to complicate things; read something about someone writing the file to the virtual DVD-Rom drive added to the VM, though God only knows how they did that) Input would be great ... Thanks! _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org https://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins