Build VMware images

[coyotebush]

The department, and students, might prefer VMware over VirtualBox. Packer can build VMware images.

Per hashicorp/packer#1102, on Linux this requires the VIX SDK installed in addition to VMware Player. So far, I haven't had much success with this myself.

Another option might be to build a VirtualBox image then convert OVA to VMX, though I'd guess that the result wouldn't integrate as well with VMware.

[nitrocode]

@coyotebush did you already have vmware-vdiskmanager? I had to install the workstation in order to run "packer build" without any issue and workstation requires a license...

Edit: Downloaded vdiskmanager, renamed it to vmware-vdiskmanager, put it in the same directory as VMwarePlayer because it needs libeay32.dll, and finally added the vmware player's directory to my path.

[coyotebush]

@nitrocode Thanks for the input! I suspected this might require Workstation. We might give it a try sometime.

[nitrocode]

@coyotebush, it seems to work without workstation. :)