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Creating a Windows 7 Base Virtual Machine by Herman Arnedo –www.hermanarnedo.com

Creating a Windows 7 Base Virtual Machine

When we have to build Servers for many different scenarios, it sure is helpful to have a base Windows OS Image

handy to start with. Even though it seems simple, I thought I would share my personal experience and “How To”

steps to help those who are still somewhat new to this process. I happen to use Hyper-V for all of my virtualization

stuff so my instructions will be based on this.

The first thing I take into consideration is the versions of Windows Operating Systems that I plan on using during my

testing, learning and demos.

Based on the different scenarios that I tend to evaluate, I happen to need the following:

Windows 7 Base Image Virtual Machine

Windows 8.1 Base Image Virtual Machine

Windows 2012 R2 Base Image Virtual Machine

Since the process of building the image is pretty much the same for all above operating systems, you will not need to

follow all the examples.

Here are my “How To” Steps:

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1- On your computer, open Hyper-V Manager 2- In Hyper-V Manager, in the actions pane, click New and then click Virtual Machine 3- In the New Virtual Machine Wizard, on the Before You Begin page, click Next


4- On the Specify Name and Location page, in the Name field, type EN_BASE_WIN7, and then click Next


5- On the Specify Generation page, click Generation 1, and then click Next. (Windows 7 only Generation 1)


6- On the Assign Memory page, in the Startup Memory field, type 1024, select the Use Dynamic Memory for this

virtual machine check box, and then click Next.

7- On the configure Networking Page select your internet connection, and then click next


8- On the connect Virtual Hard disk page , on the Specify Name and Location, in the Name field, type

EN_BASE_WIN7.vhdx, confirm that the Location field is set to YOUR LOCATION, and then click Next.

9- On the installation options page, select install an operation system from a bootable image file , click browse to your ISO files location.


10- On the Completing the Virtual Machine Wizard page, click Finish. Virtual machine named EN_BASE_WIN7 is created.

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12- On your computer, in Hyper-V Manager, right-click the EN_BASE_WIN7 virtual machine, and then click Settings. 13- Click Memory. In the details pane, confirm that Enable Dynamic Memory is selected, and in the startup RAM field,

type 1024, in the minimum RAM field type 1024 and in the maximum ram field accept your default configuration.


14- Click Processor. You can modify the number of virtual processors based on the number of processors on your physical computer. In my case 8


15- Click Network Adapter, Enable internet Access on your virtual machine. We will need to register and download some apps.


16- Start the VM EN_BASE_WIN7


17- On the Which type of installation do you want? Page, select custom


18- Installing Windows

19- In the type a user name field type USER and in the type a computer name field, type base


20- On the set a password for your account page. In the Type a password Field, type P@ssw0rd. All the passwords in these guides will be Pa$$w0rd


21- Select Use recommended setting


22- Select Work Network

23- Well done! Your setup is done!


24- Open a windows Explorer console and create a new folder c:\TEMP. we will use this folder to save different files that we will use in this lab.


25- Go to Sysinternals website and download PStools suite. Save the files on C:\Temp


26- Unzip the files and Copy all the files to C:\windows\system32


27- Run a Command Prompt as an Admin and execute psgetsid and accept the license agreement


28- Now you can see your Computer`s SID, copy the SID. This number has to be unique for each computer.

Creating a Windows 7 Base Virtual Machine by Herman Arnedo –www.hermanarnedo.com 28 - Create a new notepad file and save in C:\temp. Rename the file with your SID number


29- Open windows firewall window and Turn Off windows firewalls in all your networking locations


30- Open the computer management console, expand system tools, expand local users and groups and Delete the local User account that we created before


31- Now it`s time to use SYSPREP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577 Windows operating system installations include many unique elements per installation that need to be "generalized" before capturing and deploying a disk image to multiple computers. Sysprep seeks to solve these issues by allowing for the generation of new computer names, unique SIDs, and custom driver cache databases during the Sysprep process

32- Go to C:\windows\system32\sysprep and Execute Sysprep 33- Select Generalize and Shutdown.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577


34- When the sysprep process has finished. Open the Hyper-V Manager console and delete the virtual machine. We only need the Virtual Hard disk.


35- Go to the location of your base hard disk and configure as Read-Only.

36- Now we have a new Windows 7 Base virtual Machine that we will use in the next Step by Steps Guides.

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