> > Instead of Packer source image, can I use an ova or vmdk etc to build a > packer image ? >
Assuming you ment OpenStack (OS) image, no. The OpenStack builder builds from an OS image and creates a new OS image. The point of Packer is to allow you to build images on multiple virtualization technologies with the same config. So you could launch a CentOS VM on OS and on AWS and run the *same* provisioners on both and then create two new images from that. One on OS and one on AWS. Hope that clears it a bit. On 7 October 2016 at 15:16, Sony Koithara <[email protected]> wrote: > I am new to packer world... > > My Packer.conf file looks like this: > { > "builders": [{ > "type": "openstack", > "source_image": "a5dc1a16-38c4-4eed-bf4d-04866b3d517f", > "communicator": "winrm", > "winrm_username": "vagrant", > "winrm_password": "vagrant", > "winrm_timeout": "2h", > "flavor": "m1.large", > "image_name": "packerImage", > "networks": "9a91549c-ccb1-4beb-b6ae-24d5d08935ef", > "security_groups": ["default"], > "insecure": "true" > }] > } > > > > > *My Question is: Instead of Packer source image, can I use an ova or vmdk > etc to build a packer image ?With this builder, it fetches the image from > your openstack account, do all provisioing and then upload it back over > there ?I thought Packer was capable of creating multiple image from any > type of source... Please correct me if I am wrong.* > > -- > 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/ms > gid/packer-tool/f6c831ef-22dd-4542-a1bc-74a87ce10b92%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/f6c831ef-22dd-4542-a1bc-74a87ce10b92%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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt9Y1kxY7GughTeQutk_FJNHnLyH8BCfgfqijgFg5KvF7A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
