There are some quirks around VirtualBox networking. Try adding https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-iso.html#ssh_skip_nat_mapping true
If that doesn't help you can always run with nat nic and then use vboxmanage_post to change the network to bridged if your product properly auto configures network. See https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-iso.html#vboxmanage_post On 19 October 2016 at 09:40, Jaikumar Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new to packer; i've written the script to export Virtualbox OVA from > headless installation DVD of my product (no preceed is required in packer > config). > > Issue i'm facing is if i use ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", > "bridged"] then packer is not able to connect to newly installed VM and > gets SSH Time out, but if I use ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", "nat"], > it successfully connect through SSH and shut down the VM and export the OVA > successfully. > > My product is based on Debian Jessie. > > I've googled as to why using 'bridged' connection it is not able to > connect to VM, but no fruitful results or answer i'm getting. Does somebody > know what is wrong ? > > Attached is the template. > > Thank you in advance! > > Regards > Jaikumar > > -- > 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/8ad4a337-9534-42e9-96ab-04b5416fe927%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/8ad4a337-9534-42e9-96ab-04b5416fe927%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/CALz9Rt8-MZOpEGFq-aEo2Y0DrLJgL2uAMu_zcVxNagC3PjODFw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
