WIndows 10 VMWare Hardware Version issues
sjames-au opened this issue · 3 comments
So I have been attempting to build a win10x64 eval box on OSX 10.13.4 with Fusion 10.1.1. Packer version 1.2.3
Windows 10 would boot and show the windows logo but the spinning balls would never appear. I left it in this state for several hours quite a few times. Bastardising the boxcutter tools trying to identify what was not working.
I eventually boot straight off the ISO directly and inspected the settings Fusion gave, which was hardware version 14. Checking packer, the default (and only supported) is version 9. When I attempted to change to version 9 in my newly created VM, Fusion informed me that version 9 is incompatible with my guest OS and would not let me change it.
Added a version line to the eval-win10....json file seems to have solved this for me. Well I am at least past the boot logo and well into the installation. I cant be the only person who has been or will be bitten by this issue. So hopefully this might help someone else.
Cheers,
S.
diff --git a/eval-win10x64-enterprise.json b/eval-win10x64-enterprise.json
index c0dc10c..4f20070 100644
--- a/eval-win10x64-enterprise.json
+++ b/eval-win10x64-enterprise.json
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
"tools_upload_flavor": "windows",
"type": "vmware-iso",
"vm_name": "eval-win10x64-enterprise",
+ "version": "10",
"vmx_data": {
"cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1",
"memsize": "{{ user `memory` }}",
this helped me! I'm using VMWare workstation 14 and then 15... Had to add "version": "14" to get it working, then figured change to 15 on upgrade - thanks, you saved me a headache