Use BoxStarter to install/update WMF

[it-praktyk]

In the README we can find "We may consider automatically installing and configuring DSC in a future release of the plugin."

I think that this can be achieved using BoxStarter - http://boxstarter.org/ .

I can prepare packages but I don't have experience in Ruby.

[mefellows]

Hi @it-praktyk, if you wanted to prepare a package I would see what I could do about integrating it. The base Windows image would always need at the very least WinRM configured, which is something possible to do with Packer as is DSC itself. I haven't really come across a use case that needed DSC for that reason. Either way, if the BoxStarter script is something that's easy enough to run programmatically via WinRM then it should be possible. I have had some experience using it, but not for over a year.

[dragon788]

@it-praktyk I've been trying to combine this repo and this other one, https://github.com/mwrock/packer-templates to get the best box for testing DSC in addition to keeping it updated with Boxstarter/Chocolatey for easier package management, but its been slow going since I keep running into issues and Windows Updates on Virtualbox are horrendously slow when it goes through NAT. If you can configure a bridged network the CPU usage is much lower (or using VMware would be awesome, but I'm not sure how tested all the plugins are with that).

[dragon788]

@it-praktyk I have been testing with a @mwrock template that uses Boxstarter but if I install PowerShell 5 it is currently breaking the DSC plugin. See #21 for more details, but if we can work around that I'd be happy to contribute the template that I modified that includes DSC "out of the box".

[mefellows]

That would be great @dragon788!

[it-praktyk]

Sorry, that I didn't answer previously. I'll try check this soon.