Export to Vmdk

[xwing]

Hello.
When I made a small change, I'm testing iso in Vmware.
First, I need to save the changes in wim and then in iso. After this vmware has to unpack wim to the emulated drive and finally the configuration will start.
It takes a lot of time ....


My suggestion is to copy (export) the mounted temporary folder to the emulated VMware VMDK drive, and when I attach this disk, the configuration starts just like after Sysprep.
(So there is no need to export to wim, create iso, unpack wim in emulator. )


Yes, I use the manual method.

z:
xcopy d:\Temp\NLTmpMount01 z: /B /s /e /h /x /C

I mount the VMDK disk in the system and copy the mounted folder, but such an option directly in the program would be more useful.

 

[Kasual]

When I made a small change, I'm testing iso in Vmware.
First, I need to save the changes in wim and then in iso.

Yes, I use the manual method.

I mount the VMDK disk in the system and copy the mounted folder, but such an option directly in the program would be more useful.

Handling live images is different to offline images.

Here is a tip to help you save time:
In the Apply page
Select 'Stop before saving the image' in Saving mode, then process the image.
Once the process has finished, go to Sources and find the processed image (with blue dot), right click and select Explore mount directory, it will open the directory where te image is mounted.

Make your copy to the mounted image (a batch file would be quicker to double click).

I work with Virtual Box.

 

[ahazuarus]

I personally use HyperV (because it is already there). I create a VHDx and mount it when not running to make some changes. When testing boot media. I just swap out the wim file(s) when the vhdx is mounted and skip the ISO process altogether.

I use Rufus to convert the iso to a mounted and (and initialized) vhdx.

I also use sysinternals disk2vhd to convert live systems to vhdx so that I can continue messing with them in a VM.

In virtual machines, you can make snapshots and capture FROM snapshots. I always mount vhdx as read-only before capturing.