ok thank you.
Two minor issues i have are,
1.ssh not connecting even after vm gets installed through kickstart ,
reboots and shows login prompt in console and
2.if i cancel the packer build vm gets unregistered even after setting
keep_registered to true
can you talk about that?,
I've set text based kickstart install.
This is what i've got in Debug mode :
2016/09/06 09:17:26 packer: Stderr:
2016/09/06 09:17:31 ui error: ==> vmware-iso: Timeout waiting for SSH.
==> vmware-iso: Timeout waiting for SSH.
2016/09/06 09:17:31 packer: 2016/09/06 09:17:31 opening new ssh session
2016/09/06 09:17:31 packer: 2016/09/06 09:17:31 [DEBUG] SSH wait cancelled.
Exiting loop.
2016/09/06 09:17:31 packer: 2016/09/06 09:17:31 starting remote command:
vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate 42
2016/09/06 09:17:32 packer: 2016/09/06 09:17:32 remote command exited with
'0': vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate 42
On Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 6:41:20 PM UTC+5:30, Alvaro Miranda
Aguilera wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> This is my suggestion based on what I would do if I was in your situation.
>
> Replace:
> "vmx_data": {
> "virtualHW.version": "9",
> "ethernet0.startConnected": "TRUE",
> "ethernet0.present": "TRUE",
> "ethernet0.virtualDev": "e1000",
> "ethernet0.networkName": "vlan2",
> "ethernet0.addressType": "generated",
> "ethernet0.displayName": "vlan2",
> "ethernet0.present": "TRUE",
> "memsize": "1024",
> "numvcpus": "1",
> "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1",
> "scsi0:0.present": "TRUE",
> "scsi0:0.redo": "",
> "ide0:0.present": "FALSE"
> }
>
> To ethernet1.
>
> Just let packer to create ethernet0.
>
> When the machine starts, probably won't see eth0 due the lack of drivers,
> so the ks should work as is.
>
> as part of the provisioning, in packer you can install vmware tools, then:
>
> When you finish to install, put on
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and eth1, for dhcp on boot
>
> At some point you can/could/should export the VM without nics or 1/2 nics
> etc and will work in all the cases.
>
> my 2 cents
>
> Alvaro.
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Anil Dasmala <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alvaro,
>>
>> Thanks for the info.
>> Finally I found another way to get past this issue of vmxnet3.
>> create-vm.json attached.
>> (Note : in json file i have to set "ethernet0.virtualDev": "e1000" ,
>> otherwise packer build fails.)
>>
>> After running packer build myjsonfile and i see VM getting registered on
>> esx in debug text, I'm using vsphere powercli to modify the network adapter
>> to vmxnet3 type online.
>> get-vm packer-vm | get-networkadapter|set-networkadapter -networkname
>> "vlan2" -type vmxnet3 -connected:$true -confirm:$false
>>
>> I tested on centos7, the vmxnet3 driver is gettign loaded only after
>> shutdown and power on, (if I just reboot instead of shutdown first time
>> e1000 driver loaded).
>>
>> Thanks again Alvaro, your help is much appreciated.
>>
>> On Friday, September 2, 2016 at 11:48:36 PM UTC+5:30, Alvaro Miranda
>> Aguilera wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 9:30 AM, Anil Dasmala <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> vmxnet3
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> What he did is a new file.go that you can use to patch packer and build
>>> a new binary.
>>>
>>> I think will be easier to ask him for a build version (binary) to test.
>>>
>>> Other option is create a custom iso / initrd
>>>
>>>
>>> https://vmwire.com/2011/06/11/vmware-tools-rpm-installation-with-pxeboot-and-kickstart-3/
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you share your packer templates and scripts?
>>>
>>> I have an ESX 5.5 where I can test
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alvaro
>>> (+31)103400555
>>>
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