Windows 2012 ISO URL is broken about packer-windows HOT 18 CLOSED

Happy to update to a working url, but it appears Microsoft has changed the direct download link. VeeWee is broken also. You can manually download the ISO using that URL - do that, and then place the ISO in the iso directory, and update the json to use the local file.

If you find an updated direct download URL that does not bump us back to the trial registration page, please make a pull request.

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try:

http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/2/A/62A76ABB-9990-4EFC-A4FE-C7D698DAEB96/9600.17050.WINBLUE_REFRESH.140317-1640_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-IR3_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV9.ISO

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The existing URL: http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/D/A/6DAB58BA-F939-451D-9101-7DE07DC09C03/9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-HRM_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO does work, the issue (and also the issue with the link you provided, which is 2012R2) is that Microsoft has got registration pages sitting in front of the URL, preventing Packer from automatically downloading the ISO.

Sadly, until someone discovers a URL that is not protected in this way, you will need to manually download the ISO and place it in the iso directory.

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I also have the same problem for windows8.1 even if I use the link of your latest response. Do you have any solution for that?
It also says 'virtualbox-iso: Error downloading: checksums didn't match expected: 5e4ecb86fd8619641f1d58f96e8561ec'

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What I have been doing is filling out the form and getting the iso. I then start the build which will create the hash file and then fail. Then I move/rename the downloaded ISO to the cache with the hash. It's not the best method but at least it works.

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@1024207411 Windows 8.1 and Windows 2012 R2 will obviously have different checksums for the ISOs. Determine the correct checksum for your ISO, and enter it in the relevent .json file.

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FYI, care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/ can always be replaced with download.microsoft.com/ to get a URL that works for direct download. 😉

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Hmm.... http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/D/A/6DAB58BA-F939-451D-9101-7DE07DC09C03/9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-HRM_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO -> http://download.microsoft.com/dl/download/6/D/A/6DAB58BA-F939-451D-9101-7DE07DC09C03/9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-HRM_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO = file not found.

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One thing that I've found is that they have put Akamai in between now too.

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Wouldn't it be lovely if someone from @microsoft would help us out and provide a direct download for these trial versions... @sbohlen @mitchellh got any ideas?

http://www.modern.ie/en-us/virtualization-tools#downloads was a step in the right direction, but that coincided with the blocking of all the trial ISO direct download links. Correlation != causation of course.

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I've tried with my relationship with Microsoft but their hands are tied, at least the people I was talking to, for various reasons. :(

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@mitchellh btw I was sitting across from you at the @gophercon hack day when you were sitting on that couch near @mstine and @drnic - sorry for not saying g'day - didn't realize it was you until you walked off.

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@joefitzgerald your url didn't remove the dl part as I suggested.

Try this for 2012 R2 and you'll see it works ->

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/2/A/62A76ABB-9990-4EFC-A4FE-C7D698DAEB96/9600.16384.WINBLUE_RTM.130821-1623_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-IRM_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO

In your particular example

http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/D/A/6DAB58BA-F939-451D-9101-7DE07DC09C03/9200.16384.WIN8_RTM.120725-1247_X64FRE_SERVER_EVAL_EN-US-HRM_SSS_X64FREE_EN-US_DV5.ISO

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@Iristyle my apologies. Should have RTFM! New release coming momentarily.

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@joefitzgerald no apology needed -- glad I could help!

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@Iristyle you guys using this repo for @chocolatey testing?

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I think @ferventcoder is, but not totally sure... I have used it for reference while building some Packer templates for dev boxes here at Puppet though.

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Windows 7 still has a broken trial URL. VeeWee's URLs for it don't work either. Otherwise, the rest work. 👍

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