Boxstarter's HyperV module includes functionality for targeting Hyper-V guest VMs with the ability to automatically configure them for remote installation and to create or restore snapshots at installation time.

Vagrant provides easy to configure, reproducible, and portable work environments built on top of industry-standard technology and controlled by a single consistent workflow to help maximize the productivity and flexibility of you and your team. To achieve its magic, Vagrant stands on the shoulders of giants. Machines are provisioned on top of Virt... More information

###Overview of VMware Tools VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machines guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Without VMware Tools installed in your guest operating system, guest performance lacks important functionality. Installing VMware Tools eliminates or improves t... More information

Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Packer is lightweight, runs on every major operating system, and is highly performant, creating machine images for multiple platforms in parallel. Packer does not replace configuration management like Chef or Puppet. In fac... More information

Oracle VM VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, Oracle VM VirtualBox is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software. VirtualBox Extension Pack adds Support for USB 2.0 devices, VirtualBox RDP and PXE boot for Intel cards. ... More information

VMware Horizon Client for Windows makes it easy to access your remote desktops and published applications with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).

___ [choco://vmwarevsphereclient](choco://vmwarevsphereclient) To use choco:// protocol URLs, install [(unofficial) choco:// Protocol support ](https://chocolatey.org/packages/choco-protocol-support) ___ ![Screenshot of VMware vSphere Client](https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-4-esxi-installable-vcenter/topic/com.vmware.vsphere.gsinstallable.doc_40/g... More information

Remote Desktop Manager Enterprise Edition lets you centralize and manage all your remote tools and protocols into one easy-to-use platform. * Powerful Centralize and manage your remote connections. Create synergy within your team by sharing information. Empower individual and team performance and productivity. Give the power to your IT team. * Pr... More information

VMware Workstation enables technical professionals to develop, test, demonstrate, and deploy software by running multiple x86-based Windows, Linux, and other operating systems simultaneously on the same PC.

Boxstarter's Azure module includes functionality for targeting Azure VMs with the ability to save and restore checkpoints leveraging blob snapshots.

###The Guest Additions are designed to be installed inside a virtual machine after the guest operating system has been installed. They consist of device drivers and system applications that optimize the guest operating system for better performance and usability. The Guest Additions offer the following features: * Mouse pointer integration * Shar... More information

Interacts with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX Server 3.5, ESX Server 3i, ESX Server 4i, VirtualCenter 4.x, ESX Server 4.x, VirtualCenter 5.x, VirtualCenter Appliance, ESX Server 5.x, VirtualCenter 6.x, ESX Server 6.x. RVTools is able to list information about VMs, CPU, Memory, Disks, Partitions, Network, Floppy drives, CD drives, Snapshots, VMware tools, ... More information

Remote Desktop Manager Free Edition lets you centralize and manage all your remote tools and protocols into one easy-to-use platform. * Powerful Centralize and manage your remote connections. Create synergy within your team by sharing information. Empower individual performance and productivity. Give the power to your IT team. * Productive Say go... More information

Neko is a lightweight and yet well optimized virtual machine. The VM can be easily embedded into any application and your libraries can be accessed using the C foreign function interface.

###VMware PowerCLI is a command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell, and provides more than 600 cmdlets for managing and automating vSphere, vCloud, vRealize Operations Manager, vSAN, NSX-T, VMware Cloud on AWS, and VMware Horizon environments. **[PACKAGE NOTES](https://github.com/bcurran3/ChocolateyPackages/blob/master/vmware-powe... More information

**This package has been deprecated** in favor of the [vmware-workstation-player](https://chocolatey.org/packages/vmware-workstation-player) package, because that package is more up-to-date.

VMware Workstation Player (formerly known as Player Pro) is a desktop virtualization application that is available for free for personal use. A Commercial License can be applied to enable Workstation Player to run Restricted Virtual Machines created by VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro.

Machine lets you create Docker hosts on your computer, on cloud providers, and inside your own data center. It creates servers, installs Docker on them, then configures the Docker client to talk to them.

boot2docker is a lightweight Linux distribution based on Tiny Core Linux made specifically to run Docker containers. It runs completely from RAM, weighs ~27MB and boots in ~5s (YMMV). Docker - An open platform for distributed applications for developers and sysadmins.

WinImage is a fully-fledged disk-imaging suite for easy creation, reading and editing of many image formats and fileystems, including DMF, VHD, FAT, ISO, NTFS and Linux. The disk image is an exact copy of a physical disk (floppy, CD-ROM, hard disk, USB, VHD disk, etc.) or a partition that preserves the original structure. With WinImage in place, yo... More information

Disk2vhd is a utility that creates VHD (Virtual Hard Disk - Microsoft's Virtual Machine disk format) versions of physical disks for use in Microsoft Virtual PC or Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). The difference between Disk2vhd and other physical-to-virtual tools is that you can run Disk2vhd on a system that’s online. Disk2vhd uses Windows... More information

The open source virtualization software VirtualBox is lacking an option to run virtual machines as a Windows NT/XP/2003/W7/W8x service entity. VBoxVmService does the trick!

This packer plugin leverages VMware OVF Tool to create a vagrant-vcloud and vagrant-vcenter compatible boxes. This plugin is used to build the boxes available at https://vagrantcloud.com/gosddc you can find the packer templates at https://github.com/gosddc/packer-templates

 OSFMount is a free utility designed for use with PassMark OSForensics™ ##Overview OSFMount allows you to mount local disk image files (bit-for-bit copies of a disk partition) in Windows with a drive letter. You can then analyze the disk image file with [Pass... More information

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter can be used to convert non-MS virtual machines to Hyper-V using a wizard or CMDLets and non-VHD hard disks to VHD or VHDX using CMDLets. A walkthrough is posted here: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn874008.aspx If you wish to convert a VM for usage with Windows Desktop Hyper-V, you will need to us... More information

psievm is a powershell module for standing up an IE Virtual Machine in VirtualBox quickly and without hassle. This will do all the steps needed to get the VM running.

Boxstarter spec to create baseline windows development machine. This is the first script in a larger set of scripts to create a development vm. Installs .NET Frameworks 3.5-4.5.2, configures IIS and Hpyer-V settings.

Fogg is a PowerShell v4.0+ tool to aide and simplify the creation, deployment and provisioning of infrastructure (IaaS) in Azure using Azure Resource Manager (does not support Classic). ### Features * Deploy and provision Virtual Machines in Azure * Spin-up mulitple Resource Groups at once using a Foggfile * Has inbuilt provision scripts, with mo... More information

qemu-img allows you to create, convert and modify images offline. It can handle all image formats supported by QEMU.

Boxstarter spec to create baseline windows development machine