Looking for WinRM instructions

[Mosby Simmons]

I'm new to Packer and trying to get a base image up for Win10.

Is there a good resource somewhere on getting WinRM to work in Packer?

I'm running on a Win10 system with virtualbox and I just can't seem to get WinRM to work.  It just sits there waiting to connect.

I have lines:

  "winrm_insecure": true,

  "winrm_use_ntlm": true,

  "winrm_use_ssl": true,

  "communicator": "winrm",

      "winrm_username": "vagrant",

      "winrm_password": "vagrant",

and tried various flavors but no luck.

Also do people usually set winrm information in the autounattend file or as a separate powershell script?  And does it matter?

A little guidance would be very helpful.

TIA.

[Jimster]

This works for me building W2016 Servers, YMMV...

Here is my build file:

{

    "builders": [{

        "type":             "amazon-ebs",

        "vpc_id":           "**********",

        "subnet_id":        "**********",

        "region":           "us-east-1",

        "source_ami":       "**********",

        "ami_name":         "My packer-demo-{{timestamp}}",

        "user_data_file":   "./USERDATA2.0.txt",

        "communicator":     "winrm",

        "winrm_username":   "Administrator",

        "instance_type":    "m3.medium",

        "winrm_use_ssl":    true,

        "winrm_insecure":   true

    }],

    "provisioners": [

        {

            "type":         "file",

            "source":       "./packages/something/",

            "destination":  "C:\\temp"

        },        

        {

            "type":         "powershell",

            "script":       "./install_something.ps1"      

        },

        {

            "type":         "powershell",

            "inline": [

                "C:/ProgramData/Amazon/EC2-Windows/Launch/Scripts/InitializeInstance.ps1 -Schedule",

                "C:/ProgramData/Amazon/EC2-Windows/Launch/Scripts/SysprepInstance.ps1 -NoShutdown"

            ]

        }

    ]

}

Then in USERDATA2.0.txt I have:

<powershell>


write-output "Running User Data Script"
write-host "(host) Running User Data Script"


Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope LocalMachine -Force -ErrorAction Ignore


# Don't set this before Set-ExecutionPolicy as it throws an error
$ErrorActionPreference = "stop"


# Remove HTTP listener
Remove-Item -Path WSMan:\Localhost\listener\listener* -Recurse


$Cert = New-SelfSignedCertificate -CertstoreLocation Cert:\LocalMachine\My -DnsName "packer"
New-Item -Path WSMan:\LocalHost\Listener -Transport HTTPS -Address * -CertificateThumbPrint $Cert.Thumbprint -Force


#Create Folder for Package Source Files (AMI Install Version)
Write-Host "Doing Temp File Folder Creation"
New-Item -Path "c:\" -name "temp" -itemType "directory" -force


# WinRM
write-output "Setting up WinRM"
write-host "(host) setting up WinRM"


cmd.exe /c winrm quickconfig -q
cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config" '@{MaxTimeoutms="1800000"}'
cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/winrs" '@{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="1024"}'
cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/service" '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'
cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/client" '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'
cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/service/auth" '@{Basic="true"}'
cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/client/auth" '@{Basic="true"}'
cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/service/auth" '@{CredSSP="true"}'
cmd.exe /c winrm set "winrm/config/listener?Address=*+Transport=HTTPS" "@{Port=`"5986`";Hostname=`"packer`";CertificateThumbprint=`"$($Cert.Thumbprint)`"}"
cmd.exe /c netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="remote administration" new enable=yes
cmd.exe /c netsh firewall add portopening TCP 5986 "Port 5986"
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Shell\MaxMemoryPerShellMB 2048
cmd.exe /c net stop winrm
cmd.exe /c sc config winrm start= auto
cmd.exe /c net start winrm


</powershell>

Try that setup.

[Rickard von Essen]

You need to set them in autounattended.xml since a powershell provisioner requires the WinRM connection. 

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[dragon788]

https://github.com/chef/bento/packer_templates/windows has great examples.

[Mosby Simmons]

@Jimster - Thanks! I'm not in AWS so just needed to make a few minor changes and it worked!