Hi, Did you manage to write any blogs on this? I am also having a very hard time finding any details on packer with Azure-arm. Any time i attempt to run any kind of powershell script i just get an error.
Did you get past this? On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 2:09:57 PM UTC, Rajinder Singh wrote: > > I finally found out what the issue was. > > I had to add /quiet to my sysprep command. > > I also upgraded to packer 11 > > Because I did not have /quiet sysprep was opening a dialog box and due to > that the sysprep process was not finishing properly. There were no errors > logged but when I created VM's from the image I was getting a vague > "Provisioning failed..." error. > > I tested created VM's and VM Scalesets with the image I created and they > both work. > > I like packer but I did not find many good examples for creating Windows > VM's on Azure. Most were Linux. > > So I am going to find time and blog them here http://www.rajinders.com > > Thanks for taking the time to help me. > > %windir%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown /quiet > > On Sunday, November 6, 2016 at 6:17:49 AM UTC-6, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera > wrote: >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:00 PM, Rajinder Singh <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> %windir%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown >>> >> >> Hello. >> >> >> What It may be happening is the VM is not being created properly. >> >> If that command returns to the promp,. then packer will think the VM >> failed since he cant connect and shutdown. >> >> What about if you replace the shutdown command with that: >> "%windir%\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown" >> >> I would replace %windir% with the actual folder name just to be sure. >> >> Hope this helps. >> Alvaro. >> >> >> -- >> 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/87cb8531-5658-4db2-81f7-e3c20180a1e3%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
