Ryan Johnson

### Description - Consolidates `Workstation9Driver` and `Workstation10Driver` to `WorkstationrDriver` within `driver_workstation.go`. - Addresses the deprecation of `syscall.StringToUTF16Ptr` with `windows.UTF16PtrFromString` in `readRegString`. ### Testing - [x] Basic - [ ] End-to-End...

refactor: consolidate player driver

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### Description Consolidates `Player5Driver` and `Player6Driver` to `PlayerDriver` within `driver_player.go`. ### Testing - [x] Basic - [ ] End-to-End ```console packer-plugin-vmware on  refactor/consolidate-player-driver ➜ go fmt ./... packer-plugin-vmware on...

refactor: consolidate fusion driver

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### Description Consolidates `Fusion5Driver` and `Fusion6Driver` to `FusionDriver` within `driver_fusion.go`. **Note**: The minimum version should be set to VMware Fusion 13 per the [Broadcom Product Lifecycle](https://support.broadcom.com/group/ecx/productlifecycle). However, we could hold...

refactor: update `esx5` to `esxi`

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### Description - Updates references to "ESX5" to "ESXi". - Sets `remote_type` of `esxi` as preferred and `esx5` as deprecated. - Updates messages and comments, including deprecation message. - Updates...

### Summary - Replaces the deprecated `InitializePluginVersion` with `NewPluginVersion` from `packer-plugin-sdk`, which is the recommended approach in `version/version.go`. - Removed superfluous comments that are already included in the SDK.

Removed superfluous comments that are already included in the SDK.

chore(ci): add codeql analysis

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Adds CodeQL Analysis. Required 1.N.P syntax in `go.mod` which is used in `go.version`.

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### Description Adds support to import a remote ISO file by allowing vCenter Server to pull the file from the HTTP/HTTPS endpoint. ### References Closes #1638

#### Overview of the Issue When using VMware Workstation 17.5.2 (Linux) and the personal license the drive can be mistake as Player. When using the personal license, there is no...