Windows Developer Box

This geneset provides pre-configured Windows development environments with common developer tools and configurations for Windows 10 and Windows 11 Enterprise editions.

Available Tags

win10

Windows 10 Enterprise development environment based on Windows 10 20H2 Enterprise.

win11

Windows 11 Enterprise development environment based on Windows 11 24H2 Enterprise.

Important Note

This geneset represents an edge case for catlets configured purely via configuration from a base catlet. Due to the long installation time (typically 20-40 minutes, potentially longer with customizations), it is strongly recommended to repack this catlet after build into a custom base-catlet for reuse. This avoids repeated lengthy installation processes for each deployment.

Usage

This catlet does not include a default user.
You should therefore set up your own fodder to create an initial local user or to automatically join a domain.

Alternatively, you can add the starter-food fodder gene, which creates a default admin user with an initial password of "InitialPassw0rd".

name: my-devbox
parent: dbosoft/windevbox/win11

fodder:
  - source: gene:dbosoft/starter-food:win-starter

drives:
 - name: sdb
   size: 100
   mutation: overwrite

Or using PowerShell with inline YAML:

@"
name: my-devbox  
parent: dbosoft/windevbox/win11

drives:
 - name: sdb
   size: 100
   mutation: overwrite  

fodder:
  - source: gene:dbosoft/starter-food:win-starter
"@ | New-Catlet

See also starter-food for other defaults and variables for starter food.

Windows license

All base catlets from dbosoft contain no valid windows license and are build using a evaluation image.
For details see base catlets documentation how to change license and to rearm while evaluating.

Versioning

This geneset contains only fodder genes and is versioned with a major-minor version scheme.

There is no patch version - when a bug is fixed, a new minor version will be released.
A new major version is released when a gene is removed from the geneset.

The tag latest is updated with each released version. If you want to have a stable reference, don't use the latest tag, use a specific version tag.

Contributing

This geneset is maintained by dbosoft and is open for contributions.

You can find the repository for this geneset on github.com/dbosoft/eryph-genes.

License

All public dbosoft genesets are licensed under the MIT License.