user_data for Windows VM

[pdahake]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We want to create Windows VMs for Nutanix. As part of the provisioning the VM, we would want to execute user data (powershell scripts). Right now, the porvider supports cloud_init for Linux VMs. We want something for the windows platform.

Describe the solution you'd like
User data like you have for AWS EC2s would be helpful.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Without the user data, we have to execute scripts after the VM is provisioned.

[coderGo93]

Hello @pdahake , I think it already exists now with guest_customization_sysprep , is that what you meant, isn't it? if so, here an example of sysprep/unattend.xml using PREPARED

locals {
  vmname_prefix = "test-vm"
  amount        = 1
  image_name    = "windows_2016"
  cluster_name = "cluster"
  vm_username = "administrator"
}
variable "vm_password" {
  default = "test"
}
data "nutanix_image" "centos" {
  image_name = local.image_name
}
data "nutanix_subnet" "subnet" {
  subnet_name = "Rx-Automation-Network"
}
data "nutanix_cluster" "cluster_by_name" {
  name = local.cluster_name
}
data "template_file" "unattend" {
  template = "${file("unattend.xml")}"
  vars = {
    vmname_prefix = local.vmname_prefix
    index         = 1
    vm_password   = var.vm_password
  }
}

resource "nutanix_virtual_machine" "vm" {
  name                 = "${local.vmname_prefix}-1"
  cluster_uuid         = data.nutanix_cluster.cluster_by_name.id
  num_vcpus_per_socket = "1"
  num_sockets          = "2"
  memory_size_mib      = 2048
  nic_list {
    subnet_uuid = data.nutanix_subnet.subnet.id
  }
  guest_customization_sysprep = {
    install_type = "PREPARED"
    unattend_xml = base64encode(data.template_file.unattend.rendered)
  }
  disk_list {
    data_source_reference = {
      kind = "image"
      uuid = data.nutanix_image.centos.id
    }
  }