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Hyperv plugin for Packer.io
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Weird Restrictions #12

Closed Jaykul closed 9 years ago

Jaykul commented 10 years ago

I have a few questions about the limitations of this, particularly since it's an MSOpenTech project, but feels like it has so far only reached tech demo stage.

  1. Will you be continuing development?
  2. Would you accept pull requests?
  3. Is there a plan to support other SKUs?
  4. Why is it limiting me to max about 6GB of RAM (this seems like a rounding error, "6538" should have been "65536" maybe? :8ball: I was going to create a VM for SharePoint, and I needed more like 16GB (or even 32GB).
vladimir-shcherbakov commented 10 years ago

1) We are going to make this project a part of core Packer. 2) Sure. 3) Maybe. 4) Packer is not meant to create VMs, it is meat to extend a given OS image to produce another with extra software installed based on a configuration file - in other words, it installs soft and you don't need much of RAM to do it. This limitation came from max RAM size for hyper-v on Windows 8 clients.

Jaykul commented 10 years ago

Yeah, fair enough -- I'm not really concerned about the memory, as I can change that -- a much bigger concern is the ability to create client SKUs, use older server OSes (specifically, when I started playing with this I needed to create a Server 2008 R2 box), and of course ... other OSes like CentOS.