Packer on WSL: Just Use Linux

Figuring It All Out Consider you have the following needs/limitations: A Windows host A desire to use Packer to build Windows VMs A desire to use Ansible to provision Windows VMs No support for nested virtualization In my personal case, I’m using a Windows 10 Home edition which lacks certain virtualization features you might find in the Pro version (like running Hyper-V). So I’m using VirtualBox as the hypervisor. I also have Ubuntu running on WSL....

May 6, 2022 · 4 min