VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010

Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ee712698.aspx) enables teams to accelerate setup/tear down and restoration of complex virtual environments to a known state for test execution and build automation. As part of configuring Lab Management, one of the required steps to be performed is to create a Lab Ready Virtual Machine or Template in System Center Virtual Machine Manager (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee518910(VS.100).aspx). The VM Prep Toolkit enables users to automate the steps required to create Lab ready VM templates. This tool accelerates the process taken to configure Lab Management for the first time and enables users to start using Lab Management quickly.

The VM Prep Tool takes a deployed virtual machine ( in a stopped state) as a starting point, installs and configures build, lab and test agents on it and converts it into a VM template that can then be imported into the Lab management library.

Current Release

The Beta release (http://vslabmgmt.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=35418) is the first release of this tool and is compatible with Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010 Beta2 release. This release supports conversion of domain joined Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86 machines to Lab ready VM templates. The following are the key features, known limitations and link to installation steps.

Key features in this release

Automated installation of Build Agent, lab Agent and Test Agent on a networked domain joined virtual machine
Automated configuration of build agent and test agent
Automated provisioning of accounts on virutal machine to enable controller-agent communication

Known limitations

Current release is tested on Windows Server 2008 SP2 x86 domain joined virtual machines only. We will expand the supported matrix in the next few weeks as we complete our testing.
A domain account must be administrator on the virtual machine
The account used to run the tool must be administrator on the host used to deploy the virtual machine

User Guide

The user guide including pre-requisites, installation and execution steps is available in the documentation section:
- http://vslabmgmt.codeplex.com/documentation

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