Hello My understanding is the format: ova + ovftool is when you build locally, so at the end of the build which defaults to OVF+VMDK, ovftool is called and create the new OVA file.
When you build remotely on ESXI, the resultant VM is ready to use format OVF+VMDK. What I have seen is people use ovftool manually in post-provisioner shell-local to invoke ovftool in the local computer, connect to the remote ESXi and perform some action, say create a template from the VM. However those are separate tasks. Hope this clarify. If there is still something note clear, and the documentation is not clear, could you highlight what need to be reviewed? Thanks Alvaro. On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Nick Charlton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Yeah, it's a super confusing bug which should hopefully be gone soon. > > "keep_registered" defaulting to staying wouldn't fit what the other (more > common) usage for Packer is, so I would feel the current default is > probably right. I'm currently using it for provisioning specific VMs to > duplicate later, but if you're going further than that, I suspect Terraform > might be a better fit. > > I'm not using ovftool yet and I'm not sure either how to go about > installing it on ESXi. A quick search didn't enlighten me either, so I'd be > interested to hear how you get on with that. > > — > Nick > > On Friday, 7 October 2016 17:17:31 UTC-4, Steven Langlois wrote: >> >> Hi Nick, >> >> A followup question. Are you using "format": "ovf" or some other format? >> The documentation says you need to install ovftool but do you install it on >> the ESX server or the machine that is hosting packer? >> >> Thank you, >> >> Steve >> >> -- > 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/52eaabab-ae2d-4721-adbd-4dd77a31500d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/52eaabab-ae2d-4721-adbd-4dd77a31500d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alvaro -- 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/CAHqq0exe7AwmReUwpwA_6u7jaEOY8kV6q3qaVR5UHtQ106Jr4A%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
