How to create a fast-booting windows guest for Vagrant

Vagrant-Windows.md

Requirements:

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• Windows 8.1/Server 2008/Server 2012 ISO

1. Create VM in VirtualBox manually and install OS
2. Create vagrant user with password vagrant
3. Turn off firewall
4. Disable 'Windows Search' Service (only if u don't need it, i don't need it)
5. Disable 'Windows Update' Service (only if u don't need it, i don't need it)
6. Turn off UAC
7. Turn off Windows Defender
8. Install Guest Additions
9. Install any other software you want.

##Run the following in Powershell in Administator mode:

1. Make all networks "private"

$nlm = [Activator]::CreateInstance([Type]::GetTypeFromCLSID([Guid]"{DCB00C01-570F-4A9B-8D69-199FDBA5723B}"))
$connections = $nlm.getnetworkconnections()
$connections |foreach {
  if ($_.getnetwork().getcategory() -eq 0)
  {
      $_.getnetwork().setcategory(1)
  }
}

2. Enable WinRm

Enable-PSRemoting -Force

3. Configure WinRM

get-service winrm
Enable-PSRemoting -force
winrm qc -q  
winrm set winrm/config/client '@{TrustedHosts="*"}'
winrm set winrm/config/winrs '@{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="2048"}'
winrm set winrm/config/winrs '@{MaxConcurrentUsers="100"}'
winrm set winrm/config/winrs '@{AllowRemoteShellAccess="True"}'
winrm set winrm/config '@{MaxTimeoutms="604800000"}'
winrm set winrm/config/service '@{AllowUnencrypted="true"}'
winrm set winrm/config/service/auth '@{Basic="true"}'

4. Set Windows Remoting service to start Automatic and not Automation (delayed)

Now all you have to do is package the box up.