Packer files for Building Windows 11 VM for Skill 09

This repository contains packer files to build a Windows 11 VM in VMX format (VMware) for the regional skill competition in Skill 09.

Requirements

1. Install packer cli command on your machine

• Packer Install tutorial

2. Windows 11 ISO downloaded from Microsoft Eval center
3. Install VMware Workstation

Build

1. Build base Windows 11 image

packer build -only=vmware-iso.base win11-base.pkr.hcl

2. Build Windows 11 image with Skill 09 flavor

packer build -only=vmware-vmx.skill09-vm win11-skill09.pkr.hcl

3. You can find the artifacts in the output folder. If you want, you can convert the ovf file to a ova file to just have a single image.

cd output/rm2025-win11-exam-<timestamp>
ovftool rm2025-win11-exam.ovf rm2025-win11-exam.ova

Contained tools

All the tools are mainly installed over chocolately package manager.

• VMware tools
• git command line client
• 7zip
• maven
• intelliJ Community Edition
• Visual Studio Community Edition
• MySQL Community Edition
• MySQL Workbench
• OpenJDK
• JavaFX SDK
• Gluon Scene Builder
• Microsoft SQL Server Express
• SQL Server Management Studio