So far none of the problems have been packer related. They've all been vmware and vmware gives horrible logs.
On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 5:33:35 PM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: > > I still can't build my vmx. The system is timing out while waiting for > ssh. I've logged into the box and found that it never gets an ip address. > > I've installed more X11 packages, but not sure that I needed to. > You cannot connect to VNC using OSX's vnc viewer. It doesn't work with > password-less connections. I installed realvnc's viewer and was able to > connect. > > I was missing a kernel module that vmware needs: > yum install kernel-devel > yum install gcc > vmware-modconfig --console --install-all > > > yum groupinstall "X Window System" > yum groupinstall "Fonts" > yum groupinstall "Gnome Desktop" > > Seems strange I have to install more dependencies and build kernel modules > after I install vmware in order to get it to run. > > On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 11:15:57 AM UTC-5, [email protected] wrote: >> >> I installed a couple of packages and got vmware to get further: >> yum install libXinerama >> yum install libXinerama-devel >> yum install libXcursor >> >> Then, I failed until I added "headless": true to my template.json >> Now the headless vmrun command is failing: >> >> # /usr/bin/vmrun -T ws start build/vmx/cats-fs.vmx nogui >> Error: The operation was canceled >> >> On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 10:47:56 AM UTC-5, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> I got: >>> >>> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx: error while loading shared libraries: >>> libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory >>> >>> So it looks like I'm going on a dependency hunt for vmware. >>> >>> Thank you >>> >>> On Thursday, August 18, 2016 at 10:08:55 AM UTC-5, Rickard von Essen >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> What's the output of: >>>> /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -v >>>> ? >>>> >>>> On 18 August 2016 at 16:46, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Thank you, Rickard >>>>> >>>>> The requested gist is here: >>>>> https://gist.github.com/dshields/c1850fbd807188943084d13a9fc5a67e >>>>> >>>>> The build runs find under vmware fusion. I have run with debug. Even >>>>> at debug level 10 I don't see what command is being run. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 11:09:47 PM UTC-5, Rickard von Essen >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Try running with: PACKER_LOG=1 packer build template.json >>>>>> >>>>>> That will give you all the commands packer run. If that doesn't help. >>>>>> Gist the log and send a follow up here with a link. >>>>>> >>>>>> / Rickard >>>>>> >>>>>> On Aug 18, 2016 12:16 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> I'm running on Linux with a licensed copy of VMware workstation 12 >>>>>>> for linux and get the following when I try to build: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Build 'cats-fs' errored: Cloning is not supported with VMware WS >>>>>>> version 9. Please use VMware WS version 10, or greater. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I ran the following clone command and it seemed to work: >>>>>>> vmrun -T ws clone build/centos72/centos72.vmx build/test >>>>>>> -cloneName test full >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I set the options to debug packer, and I get debug output, but it >>>>>>> doesn't show me what VMware commands it is running. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for any help >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community >>>>>>> Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. >>>>>>> Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal >>>>>>> from >>>>>>> this mailing list. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues >>>>>>> IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode >>>>>>> --- >>>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>>> Groups "Packer" group. >>>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/662fa272-8779-4465-bdfa-e54b5cad1f26%40googlegroups.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/662fa272-8779-4465-bdfa-e54b5cad1f26%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>>>> . >>>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines >>>>> - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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