docs(virtualization): guide for building a Windows golden image with Packer - #666
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…Packer Add a Virtualization guide covering how to build a customized Windows Server golden image with Packer against the KubeVirt builder, harden it, capture the disk, and register it in Cozystack — either as a cloneable vm-disk (copy-clone) or, for a bare URL-reachable base, via vm-default-images. Complements the manual "Running Windows VMs" guide and cross-links Cloneable Virtual Machines and Golden Images. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <aleksei.artamonov@aenix.io>
Expand the Windows golden-image guide with the actual Packer usage: installing the community KubeVirt builder plugin, a complete windows.pkr.hcl (source + build with WinRM communicator and provisioners), the variables file, and the role of autounattend.xml in enabling WinRM for the build. Previously the guide only showed `packer build` without the configuration. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <aleksei.artamonov@aenix.io>
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…ofile - Plugin: the KubeVirt builder is the published github.com/hashicorp/kubevirt plugin, installed with `packer init` — drop the incorrect "community / install manually / cannot packer init" wording and the misattribution. - Register: describe the CDI-based clone flow (capture a vm-image DataVolume in cozy-public, clone per VM via source.image.name, verify it actually has data) instead of a non-existent cloneType field. - VMInstance example: set instanceProfile: windows.2k22.virtio and instanceType explicitly, so the VM does not fall back to the ubuntu profile. - Fix invalid HCL in variables (comma-separated attributes) and remove the duplicated ISO DataVolume apply. Signed-off-by: Alexey Artamonov <aleksei.artamonov@aenix.io>
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This adds a guide for building a Windows golden image with Packer on KubeVirt, superseding the closed #665 (its fork head branch was deleted, so it could not be reopened — this is a fresh PR from a branch pushed directly to the upstream repo).
It already addresses the three points from the #665 review: (1) it drops the non-existent
cloneTypevm-disk field and instead describes the CDI clone flow, noting that the clone strategy is chosen by CDI and the storage backend rather than set in the manifest, with thecdi.kubevirt.io/cloneType: copyannotation offered as a remedy when a smart-clone reportsSucceededbut leaves the target empty; (2) theVMInstanceexample now setsinstanceProfile: windows.2k22.virtioandinstanceType: u1.largeexplicitly; (3) the plugin is the publishedgithub.com/hashicorp/kubevirtbuilder, declared inrequired_pluginsand installed withpacker initrather than any manual/community install.The guide is fully generic with no client-specific content.