Trying to get started

[bogle]

Is making the virtual machines with vmdk virtual hard drives going to be a problem with capturing images?

I have Fog Project running properly on centos 7 vm on a VMware ESXi 5.5 server and I have a Windows 10 upgrade open license.

articles I am looking at for golden image creation are:
http://robbeekmans.net/citrix/tuning-microsoft-windows-10-vdi-part-1-creating-virtual-machine/
https://www.ceos3c.com/sysadmin/create-generalized-windows-10-image-deploy-fog-server/
https://mulcas.com/vdi-lab-2018-part-11-create-a-windows-10-golden-image/
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-unattended-media-do-automated-installation-windows-10

If anyone has better guides out there please share.

Thanks

[george1421]

@bogle said in Trying to get started:

Is making the virtual machines with vmdk virtual hard drives going to be a problem with capturing images?

No problem with capture or deploy to vmdk hard drive. That is how I create my golden images under ESXi. I think my vmdk disk size for is 70GB

[bogle]

@george1421

What about additional drivers? Did you put all the drivers in a folder on the image to configure after deploying the image or use Microsoft ADK for that?

[george1421]

@bogle No model specific drivers are copied to the target computer during image push and then inserted into the windows environment using pnputil utility.

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11126/using-fog-postinstall-scripts-for-windows-driver-injection-2017-ed

I probably should update it for 2019 / Win10 specifically, but everything is in there.

I do have MDT add in the WinPE10 standard drivers so the golden image has at least the core network and disk drivers, but most of the windows 10 built in drivers are good enough to get to at least the point where the pnputil program is used.