Using
"vmx_data": {
"virtualHW.version": "10"
}
solved my issue. Exporting the OVF sets correctly a virtualhw.version
= 10 which
is compatible with my workstation out of the box.
Thanks for your help Rickard.
Jeff.
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 3:34 PM, Rickard von Essen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> virtualhw.version is a VMware specific thing, I doubt that OVF (which is a
> standard) supports it. The simplest way to check this is probably unpacking
> the ovf and check if the metadata contains this. If not I guess when VMware
> imports the ovf it defaults to version 11.
>
> On Nov 10, 2016 10:04 AM, "Jean-François FILIPPI" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm currently using Packer 0.10.2 (on Windows 7 x64).
>>
>> Running a vmware-iso builder (on a VMware Workstation 10) with those
>> parameters :
>>
>> {
>> "boot_command": [
>> "<esc><wait>",
>> "auto url=http://some-ip/preseed.cfg <wait>",
>> "<enter><wait>"
>> ],
>> "iso_checksum": "{{user `iso_checksum`}}",
>> "iso_checksum_type": "{{user `iso_checksum_type`}}",
>> "iso_url": "{{user `iso_url`}}",
>> "ssh_password": "{{user `ssh_password`}}",
>> "ssh_username": "root",
>> "ssh_port": "{{user `ssh_port`}}",
>> "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
>> "type": "vmware-iso",
>> "disk_size": "{{user `disk_size`}}",
>> "disk_type_id": 0,
>> "vmx_data": {
>> "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1",
>> "memsize": "{{user `memory`}}",
>> "numvcpus": "{{user `core`}}"
>> },
>> "guest_os_type": "debian7-64",
>> "output_directory": "{{user `path`}}",
>> "vmdk_name": "{{user `vm_name`}}",
>> "vm_name": "{{user `vm_name`}}",
>> "shutdown_command": "shutdown -P now",
>> "version": "9"
>> }
>>
>> and with some provisioning outputs a working virtual machine. Except when
>> I'm exporting it to an OVF, then importing to another computer, the
>> virtualhw.version
>> is set to 11 even though I specified as 9 in the building phase, which
>> should be the default value according to the documentation.
>>
>> Before using packer all my manually-built virtual machines were rightly
>> exported with a virtualhw.version of 9. Is this a (known) bug ? Did I
>> mistakenly configured my builder ?
>>
>> Thanks a lot
>>
>> Jeff.
>>
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