Windows

Windows 10 and 11 Images don't really need to be sys prepped but it is nice to do this so that each new one setup the user can create a username.

Windows Server, this only matters if you create a domain controller, the domain controller and other servers if they are all the same cloned image you will get errors about the server having the same SID as the domain controller, sys prepping the image after installing will prevent this.

VMware

ESXI works ok but I the following machine settings are needed to get ESXI to work correctly

ESXI vSphere 8.0u3c

• QEMU Version 8.2.1
• QEMU Arch x86_64
• QEMU Nic vmxnet3

ESXI vSphere 7.0u3r

• QEMU Version 7.2.9
• QEMU Arch x86_64
• QEMU Nic vmxnet3