Well, let me see if I'm even using the right tool, before we head down the
rabbit hole.
My goal is to generate mostly identical images in various formats (ovf,
ami, vhd, etc), customized using chef-solo. I'd like to start with a nicely
pared down ubuntu image. My original plan was to simply do this in vagrant
and then convert the resulting ovf to the varying platforms. Then I saw
someone mention that packer might be a better tool.
Am I remotely on the right path?
SSH works when the ovf is booted by vagrant alone, so I assume that
networking is fine. I cannot get vrdp to work at all to monitor the boot
process with packer though.
Meanwhile, here's the template, I never make it to the provisioner:
{
"variables": {
"home": "{{env `HOME`}}"
},
"builders": [{
"type": "virtualbox-ovf",
"source_path": "{{user `home`}}/.vagrant.d/boxes/ubun
tu-VAGRANTSLASH-xenial64/20170705.0.0/virtualbox/box.ovf",
"headless": "true",
"boot_wait": "10s",
"ssh_username": "ubuntu",
"ssh_password": "48a16ff5a87dbd49b28864f6",
"ssh_wait_timeout": "10m",
"shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant' | sudo -S shutdown -h 0",
"vrdp_bind_address": "0.0.0.0"
}],
"provisioners": [{
"type": "chef-solo",
"cookbook_paths": ["cookbooks"]
}],
"post-processors": [{
"type": "vagrant",
"keep_input_artifact": true,
"output": "box/akm_4.5.3.box"
}]
}
On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Rickard von Essen <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Packer doesn't do anything with your guest, so it doesn't (need) know
> anything about NIC naming.
>
> If you post your template, scripts, and kickstart etc we can help you
> troubleshoot. Have you logged into the console of the VM and check what
> it's doing and troubleshooted the network from the guest side?
>
> On Jul 12, 2017 01:26, "'Nicholas' via Packer" <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> Does packer support "predictable" network interface names (systemd)?
>
> I'm trying to use the vagrant ubuntu/xenial64 box as my source ovf. Works
> fine in vagrant, but ssh is never reachable in packer.
>
> 2017/07/11 10:56:04 packer: 2017/07/11 10:56:04 [DEBUG] TCP connection to
> SSH ip/port failed: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:2875: getsockopt: connection
> refused
>
> packer.json:
> {
> "variables": {
> "home": "{{env `HOME`}}"
> },
> "builders": [{
> "type": "virtualbox-ovf",
> "source_path": "{{user `home`}}/.vagrant.d/boxes/ubun
> tu-VAGRANTSLASH-xenial64/20170705.0.0/virtualbox/box.ovf",
> "headless": "true",
> "boot_wait": "10s",
> "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
> "ssh_password": "48a16ff5a87dbd49b28864f6",
> "ssh_wait_timeout": "10m",
> "shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant' | sudo -S shutdown -h 0",
> "vrdp_bind_address": "0.0.0.0"
> }],
> "provisioners": [{
> "type": "chef-solo",
> "cookbook_paths": ["cookbooks"]
> }],
> "post-processors": [{
> "type": "vagrant",
> "keep_input_artifact": true,
> "output": "box/akm_4.5.3.box"
> }]
> }
>
> Packer output:
> nicholas@pickle:~/dev/chef-akm$ packer build packer.json
> virtualbox-ovf output will be in this color.
>
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Downloading or copying Guest additions
> virtualbox-ovf: Downloading or copying: file:///usr/share/virtualbox/V
> BoxGuestAdditions.iso
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Downloading or copying OVF/OVA
> virtualbox-ovf: Downloading or copying: file:///home/nicholas/.vagrant
> .d/boxes/ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-xenial64/20170705.0.0/virtualbox/box.ovf
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Importing VM: /home/nicholas/.vagrant.d/boxe
> s/ubuntu-VAGRANTSLASH-xenial64/20170705.0.0/virtualbox/box.ovf
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Creating forwarded port mapping for communicator (SSH,
> WinRM, etc) (host port 2363)
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Starting the virtual machine...
> virtualbox-ovf: The VM will be run headless, without a GUI. If you
> want to
> virtualbox-ovf: view the screen of the VM, connect via VRDP without a
> password to
> virtualbox-ovf: rdp://0.0.0.0:5924
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Waiting 1m0s for boot...
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Typing the boot command...
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Waiting for SSH to become available...
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Timeout waiting for SSH.
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Unregistering and deleting imported VM...
> ==> virtualbox-ovf: Deleting output directory...
> Build 'virtualbox-ovf' errored: Timeout waiting for SSH.
>
> ==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
> --> virtualbox-ovf: Timeout waiting for SSH.
>
> ==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
>
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