Closed colinbowern closed 9 years ago
Hi Colin, unfortunately whilst there are plenty of strategies we could employ to speed up uploads / guest additions it complicates our plugin process as each plugin would require a different implementation and therefore maintenance etc.
That being said we would consider pull requests to improve the situation.. :)
The copy process is slow. In a pinch, you can edit your template to skip the automatic upload and add a provisioning script that pulls it down via http, for example: https://github.com/dylanmei/packer-windows-templates/blob/master/scripts/vmware-tools.ps1.example
Ima close this one off - feel free to raise a PR or look at Dylan's suggestion.
The WinRM copy process is so slow. Does it make more sense to use the VMware VIX API to push the tools in via ISO mount?