Hi All, First of all, please excuse the longish post... We tend to build a standard base OS ova from an iso and, from that ova artifact, build other ova's - sometimes even building on top of those For Virtualbox, we are able to use the virtualbox-iso builder <https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-iso.html> to build the base ova from the iso, and the virtualbox-ovf builder <https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-ovf.html> to build ova's from other ova's - and this has worked fine for us.
We also want to perform the same workflow, but using remote ESXi hosts, to produce ova's that were built on ESX (yes, I know *in theory* we should be able to use the vbox ova's on VMware, but there is resistance internally to trust it ATM) So, the first part (building the base OS ova from an iso) is fine using the vmware-iso builder <https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware-iso.html> and its remote_* properties However, we then came to a grinding halt, as there is no vmware-ova builder, and the vmware-vmx builder <https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware-vmx.html> does not support remote building - so, we have developed a vmware-esx-ova builder that does what we want My questions are: 1. Did we need to do this i.e. is there something that already does this? And... 2. Would there be any "appetite" in me raising a Jira and creating a PR in an attempt to get this adopted into core packer? Many thanks for you patience Kevin -- 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/b7e19e28-ada7-41ff-90da-80fb4e38126b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
