Try the P2V converter in BackupChain. Check the option 'universal boot' before creating the image. Does the PC have use any specialized hardware that would require drivers at boot time? Source: over 1 year ago

I heard about devbox [1] but I haven't tried it yet. Perhaps it could suit your needs. Back in the day I used "Norton Ghost" to create a full image of a just-installed windows just in case I needed to go back in time. Windows includes a snapshot feature built-in but I did not really trusted it. These days you can use a "sysprep" tool [2] to create a similar system snapshot. Make a partition and keep everything you... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

For provisioning the machines base image consider FOG it uses PXE and can remotely provision dozens of machines using multicast. Source: 6 months ago

Same. We set up 1 device how we want to, then use FOG to clone the other devices. Source: 6 months ago

With standard computers, I usually deploy something like the fog project and automate the process over pxe with scheduled reboots. I guess you could do that as well with your VMs but that seems overkill. Source: about 1 year ago

You could setup a PXE server and automate installs. You could also clone them and reapply the image as needed. https://fogproject.org/ or lookup CloneZilla both are open source. Source: about 1 year ago