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     5    The VMware Packer builder is able to create VMware virtual machines for use with any VMware product.
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     8  # VMware Builder
     9  
    10  The VMware Packer builder is able to create VMware virtual machines for use
    11  with any VMware product.
    12  
    13  Packer actually comes with multiple builders able to create VMware
    14  machines, depending on the strategy you want to use to build the image.
    15  Packer supports the following VMware builders:
    16  
    17  * [vmware-iso](/docs/builders/vmware-iso.html) - Starts from
    18    an ISO file, creates a brand new VMware VM, installs an OS,
    19    provisions software within the OS, then exports that machine to create
    20    an image. This is best for people who want to start from scratch.
    21  
    22  * [vmware-vmx](/docs/builders/vmware-vmx.html) - This builder
    23    imports an existing VMware machine (from a VMX file), runs provisioners
    24    on top of that VM, and exports that machine to create an image.
    25    This is best if you have an existing VMware VM you want to use as the
    26    source. As an additional benefit, you can feed the artifact of this
    27    builder back into Packer to iterate on a machine.