packer-reactos's Introduction

Packer Qemu Builder for ReactOS

This is a an early version of my attempt to build KVM images from ReactOS ISOs.

Prerequisites

Packer >= 1.7.0
Qemu (Tested with version 5.0.0 but older version should work as well)
xorriso
7z
Ruby
Rake

Howto

Download the images

Note	Currently only RC and nightly images work the boot CDs for `0.4.13` are bluescreening!

Build images

Fully automated with `rake`

Simple build with rake

rake

Build only nightly

rake BUILD=nightly

Tip	With `rake` the environment variables `PACKER_LOG=1` and `PACKER_LOG_PATH=logs/reactos-<release>.log` will be set for better debugging.

Clean up

rake clean:all

Removes logs, os images and all but the most recent iso downloads.

Clean logs

rake clean:logs

Clean images

rake clean:images

Clean ISO Files

rake clean:isos

Manual build

Download the zipped ISO images from the respective websites, unpack them to the iso/reactos directory.
Further checksum them with sha256sum and modify the values in the reactos-<release>.pkrvars.hcl files.
Inject a modified the unattend.inf file into the iso as outlined here.

Simple build manually

packer build -var-file="reactos-rc.pkrvars.hcl" \
  -only="*.reactos-rc" reactos.pkr.hcl
packer build -var-file="reactos-nightly.pkrvars.hcl" \
  -only="*.reactos-nightly" reactos.pkr.hcl

Known issues

Release candidate builds are currently using 0.4.14-RC releases the 0.4.15 RC are not yet online.
The nightly x64 (0.4.15) are building a working image but the finished machine is still quite buggy.
Occasionally the nightly builds won’t work as expected. As it is always on the latest commit some bumps in the road are to be expected.