Just a quick update on this one - I ended up writing a short PowerShell script to download the cookbooks directly from the Chef Marketplace and extract them on the target VM. This is working OK and I can bypass the cookbook upload, but it's not ideal as it precludes using Berkshelf to determine cookbook dependencies.
On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 1:26:00 PM UTC+10, James Bannan wrote: > > Hi Sean, > > Sure, the template is this one, authored by Matt Wrock: > > https://github.com/mwrock/packer-templates/blob/master/vbox-2016.json > > Based on some additional research, it looks like this is a long-standing > issue with the performance of the WinRM transport in Packer. However, I'm > only trying to upload about 500KB to the VM. 30 minutes to upload seems > excessive... > > Thanks, > James > > On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 1:22:39 PM UTC+10, Sean Farrow wrote: >> >> Hi James, >> >> >> >> What template are you using, is it possible to provide a link? >> >> Cheers >> >> Sean. >> >> >> >> *From:* packe...@googlegroups.com [mailto:packe...@googlegroups.com] *On >> Behalf Of *James Bannan >> *Sent:* 20 September 2016 02:21 >> *To:* Packer <packe...@googlegroups.com> >> *Subject:* [packer] Chef-solo provisioner very slow to upload cookbooks >> >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I'm using Packer 0.10.1 on Windows 10 to build a Windows 10 image on >> VirtualBox. >> >> >> >> The template uses the chef-solo provisioner, and i'm seeing that the >> upload of the cookbooks is extremely slow. Slow, as in, about 30 minutes to >> upload 4 cookbooks. >> >> >> >> It always works and never errors, but the process is extremely slow and >> painful. Any way of troubleshooting what's happening and hopefully fixing >> it? >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 packer-tool...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/6d4548b5-c250-46c7-afff-b79912f49c4b%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/6d4548b5-c250-46c7-afff-b79912f49c4b%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. 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 packer-tool+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/7f981c12-a1c4-4ac9-b493-371fbf369444%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
