[Casper] virtual machine deployment

[Thomas Larkin]

So, nobody currently deploys say a Windows VM in Virtual Box or a
commercial VM software package? 

I guess I am going to just try a few things and see where it goes... 

-Tom


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>>> Ryan Manly <ryan.manly at gmail.com> 10/14/09 11:55 AM >>>

I am interested in other's responses as well. We have thought of a few
different ways to do this but don't think they are worth the
legwork…yet. We have a terminal services farm setup already and each
machine is dual-booting with a Parallels VM pointing to the Boot Camp
partition. So this isn't something big we are concerned with, just
another option for the users. 



We have thought of the following NO USER INTERACTION methods. The idea
being they can pull down a VM from Self-Service and just run it and be
bound to AD and be getting policy etc. at any time they want without a
tech having to touch it. 



These are our ideas: 

You can sysprep XP with a wildcard for the system name to generate a
-$RAND and append it to the computer name but then you lose your naming
convention. 



With Vista and 7 you can pre-populate the OUs with the computer names
you want and have sysprep do a secure bind and get the name from AD with
a unique identifier (ie MAC address) for the system but that is a ton of
work ahead of time. 




Ryan M. Manly
Mac OS X Expert
Glenbrook High Schools
1835 Landwehr Rd.
Glenview, IL 60026
(847) 486-4948



On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Thomas Larkin 
<tlarki at kckps.org> 

wrote:


How do you do it? How do you deploy Windows? Sysprep? How do you
automate it so no user interaction takes place? 


Looking at virtual box since it is FOSS 


Thanks 


Tom 

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