Thanks i Will give this a shot.  The reason i want it is my build agent is 
building the packer image.  Afterwards i want to use serverspec to winrm 
and run some verfication tests against the box.  In order to do this i must 
specify the hostname of the box

On Friday, June 2, 2017 at 7:41:11 AM UTC-5, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>
> I'm not sure why you need the hostname?
>
> But if you need to get that to the machine running Packer you can do 
> something like:
>
> "provisioners": [
>   {
>     "type": "shell",
>     "inline": [ "hostname > /tmp/hostname" ]
>   },
>   {
>     "type": "file",
>     "direction": "download",
>     "source": "/tmp/hostname",
>     "destination": "hostname"
>   }
> ]
>
> And you will get the hostname in the file "hostname".
>
> On 2 June 2017 at 14:25, <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>> I am wanting to run some serverspec tests against my vagrant box but i'm 
>> not really sure how to get the virtualmachines hostname from packer or how 
>> to configure a hostname.  Anyone know if this i possible?
>>
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