Hi there, I am experiencing the same issue with the random "ha-decenter" being interested into the command.
I don't suppose you can recall what you did in the end? I am using hostnames rather than IP's so i'm not 100% sure what is going wrong. On Friday, 23 May 2014 18:39:55 UTC+1, dt_bski wrote: > > Alright so, I think I know what the problem is with this. The whole > environment is IP based, were not using hostnames, which we should be, but > the IBM machine we are using (blade center) has the OS labeled as > vm-host2-h on the blade i'm hitting but it's only seen as 192.168.48.71. So > basically this is hosed until I can get in there and fix this around. So > ovftool just automatically brings back vm-host2-h from the query but that > is not actually resolvable since that host isn't labeled that in the > environment. Really weird. > > Thanks for the help Don. > > On Thursday, May 22, 2014 9:21:07 AM UTC-4, dt_bski wrote: >> >> Ok, yeah I see what you mean now. I'm getting some weird behavior with >> this though. I think something in my vSphere environment is screwy. I am >> doing this in Powershell since ovftool on Linux is giving me weird >> issues... https://communities.vmware.com/thread/424573 >> >> Anyhow, PS seems to get me where I need to go for the time being. But >> here is what i'm getting: >> >> PS C:\Windows\system32> ovftool vi://root:[email protected]:443 >> Error: Found wrong kind of object (ResourcePool). Possible completions >> are: >> devTestVM1 >> Packer/ >> >> PS C:\Windows\system32> ovftool >> vi://root:[email protected]:443:Packer/ >> Error: Cannot parse locator: vi://root:[email protected]:443:Packer/ >> >> PS C:\Windows\system32> ovftool vi:// >> root:[email protected]:443/devTestVM1 >> Error: Locator does not refer to an object: >> vi://[email protected]:443ha-datacenter/host/vm-host2-h./Resources/devTestVM1 >> >> I don't know where it's getting the "ha-datacenter" part from, nor >> understand why there isn't a forward slash separating it from the :443. It >> should be :443/ha-datacenter if anything. Just very weird. I'll update as I >> poke around on VMware side. >> > -- 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/8723d49e-252c-4328-9159-2fea5706af36%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
