Hi Alvaro, Jiarui, Thanks for your quick response. I successfully built my first packer ovf file. A big thankyou to the team for providing such a nice tool to the DevOp world.
Best, Xi 2016-08-26 8:13 GMT-04:00 Jiarui Hong <[email protected]>: > Beside Alvaro's explanation, here're a few tips from me: > > 1. Since packer is very eager to remove the failed build output, you need > some way to investigate what's going on *during the build*. Thus try > launching packer with *"-debug"* flag! It pauses the build after every > step, giving you infinite time to see what's going on in the VM. > 2. Once the build is paused, press "Ctrl+Alt+F1" or similar in VM console > to switch to another console, and check if you can access the http server > from there. > 3. If you can't access the http server from there, then there can be > multiple reasons. > 3.1 Check *virtualbox logs* to see if there was an error with NAT. > 3.2. Check if firewall blocked it. > 3.3. Check *packer log* to see if the http server started successfully. > > On Friday, August 26, 2016 at 9:01:49 AM UTC+2, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Packer can open a http server and serve a directory from there. >> >> ie: >> >> { >> "type": "virtualbox-iso", >> "boot_command": [ >> .. >> >> preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg ", >> .. >> ], >> .. >> "http_directory": "http", >> .. >> }, >> >> >> Here you can see the directory http/ will be on a web server >> >> and then the intaller will read a response file from http://{{ .HTTPIP >> }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg >> Thanks >> Alvaro. >> >> >> On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:31 PM, Chen Xi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Alvaro, >>> >>> I am seeing the same issue. My question is do we need to build a http >>> server on local machine running packer. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Xi >>> >>> On Friday, August 5, 2016 at 12:55:40 PM UTC-4, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello. >>>> >>>> already did. >>>> >>>> I suggest perform the tutorial and learn from the process. >>>> >>>> The repo used in the tutorial works. >>>> >>>> Alvaro. >>>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:53 PM, Samirkanta Lenka <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello Alvaro, >>>>> >>>>> Thanks for your quick reply- >>>>> Here is my requirements- >>>>> >>>>> Wants to create an ubuntu image using Packer, where Shell Scripts as >>>>> the provisioners and being built for Virtual Box. >>>>> >>>>> Can you please help me on this. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines >>>>> - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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