Windows 10 consumer installation stucks at initial boot step during installation with packer script.

[Prashant Pandey]

Hi Community members!

I have created a packer script for automated installation of windows 10 consumer edition, but during the installation the created windows 10 VM stucks at initial step as seen in the image attached. I have also created packer script for other OS like windows server 2016, windows 2012, windows 2008 which works perfectly but for windows 10 consumer edition its not working. Below is the windows 10 consumer packer script that i created for installation. 

{

  "builders": [{

    "name": "windows-10-edge-16-v2",

    "vm_name": "vm-template-win-10-edge-16-v2-packer",

    "type": "vmware-iso",

    "communicator": "winrm",

    "winrm_username": "Administrator",

    "winrm_password": "XXXXXX",

    "winrm_timeout": "10m",

    "headless": "true",

    "iso_url": "https://XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.com",

    "iso_checksum": "A4EA45EC1282E85FC84AF49ACF7A8D649C31AC5C",

    "iso_checksum_type": "sha1",

    "disk_size": "30720",

    "guest_os_type": "windows9-64",

    "floppy_files": [

      "./windows-10-edge-16/scripts/autounattend.xml",

      "./windows-10/scripts/vmware-tools.ps1",

      "./windows-10/scripts/enable-discovery.ps1",

      "./windows-10/scripts/setup.ps1"

    ],

    "boot_wait": "10m",

    "vnc_port_min": "5900",

    "vnc_port_max": "5911",

    "ssh_username": "root",

    "disk_type_id": "thin",

    "shutdown_command": "echo 'shutdown -P now' > shutdown.sh; echo 'nullgrid'|sudo -S sh 'shutdown.sh'",

    "remote_type": "esx6.7",

    "remote_host": "X.X.X.X",

    "remote_datastore": "XXXXX",

    "remote_username": "XXXX",

    "remote_password": "XXXX",

    "vmx_data": {

      "memsize": "32768",

      "numvcpus": "8",

      "ethernet0.networkName": "Private-Subnet",

      "scsi0.virtualDev": "lsisas1068"

    }

  }],

  "provisioners": [

    {

      "type": "windows-shell",

      "inline": ["dir c:\\"]

    },

  {

    "type": "file",

    "source": "./windows-10/scripts/install-vmware-tools.ps1",

    "destination": "C:"

  }

]

}

Can anyone help in this, why the installation stucks at the starting. 

Thanks,

-Prashant