Hi

I am trying to use packer for building a Fedora 24 Desktop Vagrant box, but 
I am running into issues

Context: In our setup we have a lot of windows users which needs a Linux VM 
for development environment. By development environment I mean GUI/Desktop 
and installed IDEs etc. I am trying to use Ansible to provision the IDEs 
etc which should be relatively easy once I have a base box ideally with 
GUI. However we don't want users to run around installing Ansible on their 
windows machines, instead we want to use the ansible-local provisioner. 
However here we run into the step that we need to build our own base image, 
since I haven't been able to find a good (official) image that 
a) is close to RHEL including using yum
B) has a GUI
c) has ansible installed

I have tried to use the Bento Boxes for fedora as an example, but when I 
change the iso used from Server to Workstation I get into problems. The 
packer script is hanging at the "waiting for SSH". Looking at the GUI in 
virtualbox I can see it correctly boot up, and enter the KS script 
location. After that the boot process starts with all the normal term 
lines, but once the "Gui" opens all I get is a blank (black) screen with a 
mouse pointer.

I have also tried to update the ks script from the bento default to one 
that I got from manually installing a Fedora 24 but no help there just same 
error.

Am I doing something simple wrong or am I going down a completely wrong 
path?

Would it be better to use the server image as bento does it and just add 
the ansible package, and possibly cinnamon-desktop?

Best regards
Henrik
 

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