Hi,
I tried the same on an hp server with virtualization. I am hitting the same
issue as above.
$ packer build template.json
vmware-iso output will be in this color.
==> vmware-iso: Downloading or copying ISO
vmware-iso: Downloading or copying:
http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.5-server-amd64.iso
==> vmware-iso: Creating virtual machine disk
==> vmware-iso: Building and writing VMX file
==> vmware-iso: Starting HTTP server on port 8265
==> vmware-iso: Starting virtual machine...
vmware-iso: The VM will be run headless, without a GUI. If you want to
vmware-iso: view the screen of the VM, connect via VNC with the
password "Qqc4VN3j" to
vmware-iso: vnc://127.0.0.1:5949
==> vmware-iso: Error starting VM: VMware error: Error: Unknown error
==> vmware-iso:
==> vmware-iso: Packer detected a VMware 'Unknown Error'. Unfortunately
VMware
==> vmware-iso: often has extremely vague error messages such as this and
Packer
==> vmware-iso: itself can't do much about that. Please check the
vmware.log files
==> vmware-iso: created by VMware when a VM is started (in the directory of
the
==> vmware-iso: vmx file), which often contains more detailed error
information.
==> vmware-iso: Deleting output directory...
Build 'vmware-iso' errored: Error starting VM: VMware error: Error: Unknown
error
Packer detected a VMware 'Unknown Error'. Unfortunately VMware
often has extremely vague error messages such as this and Packer
itself can't do much about that. Please check the vmware.log files
created by VMware when a VM is started (in the directory of the
vmx file), which often contains more detailed error information.
==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> vmware-iso: Error starting VM: VMware error: Error: Unknown error
Packer detected a VMware 'Unknown Error'. Unfortunately VMware
often has extremely vague error messages such as this and Packer
itself can't do much about that. Please check the vmware.log files
created by VMware when a VM is started (in the directory of the
vmx file), which often contains more detailed error information.
==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
On Saturday, September 2, 2017 at 1:54:43 PM UTC+5:30, [email protected]
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using packer to generate VMWARE images on a digital ocean instance. I
> have installed vmware player for linux as well as vmware vix sdk. But i am
> unable to get it working.
>
> Here is my template:
> {
> "builders": [
> {
> "type": "vmware-iso",
> "boot_command": [
> "<esc><esc><enter><wait>",
> "/install/vmlinuz<wait>",
> "preseed/url=http://{{.HTTPIP}}:{{.HTTPPort}}/preseed.cfg ",
> "debian-installer=en_US auto locale=en_US kbd-chooser/method=us ",
> "hostname=RtBrick-Evaluation",
> "fb=false debconf/frontend=noninteractive ",
> "keyboard-configuration/modelcode=SKIP
> keyboard-configuration/layout=USA ",
> "keyboard-configuration/variant=USA console-setup/ask_detect=false
> ",
> "initrd=/install/initrd.gz -- <enter>"
> ],
> "boot_wait": "10s",
> "disk_size": 10240,
> "tools_upload_flavor": "linux",
> "vmdk_name": "disk",
> "guest_os_type": "ubuntu-64",
> "http_directory": "http",
> "iso_checksum": "dd54dc8cfc2a655053d19813c2f9aa9f",
> "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
> "iso_url": "
> http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.5-server-amd64.iso";,
> "ssh_username": "ubuntu",
> "ssh_password": "ubuntu",
> "ssh_port": 22,
> "headless": true,
> "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
> "shutdown_command": "echo 'ubuntu'| sudo shutdown -P now",
> "output_directory": "test",
> "vm_name": "rtbrick-vbox-6topo-{{user `version`}}",
> "vmx_data": {
> "MemTrimRate": "0",
> "sched.mem.pshare.enable": "FALSE",
> "mainMem.useNamedFile": "FALSE",
> "prefvmx.minVmMemPct": "100"
> }
> }
> ]
> }
>
> I am getting the following error:
>
> # packer build template.json
> vmware-iso output will be in this color.
>
> Build 'vmware-iso' errored: Failed creating VMware driver: Unable to
> initialize any driver for this platform. The errors
> from each driver are shown below. Please fix at least one driver
> to continue:
> * exec: "vmware": executable file not found in $PATH
> * exec: "vmware": executable file not found in $PATH
> * exec: "vmrun": executable file not found in $PATH
> * exec: "vmrun": executable file not found in $PATH
>
>
> ==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
> --> vmware-iso: Failed creating VMware driver: Unable to initialize any
> driver for this platform. The errors
> from each driver are shown below. Please fix at least one driver
> to continue:
> * exec: "vmware": executable file not found in $PATH
> * exec: "vmware": executable file not found in $PATH
> * exec: "vmrun": executable file not found in $PATH
> * exec: "vmrun": executable file not found in $PATH
>
>
> ==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
>
>
> I had gone through a couple of issues in packer git repo where they
> mentioned that I have to install VIX SDK which i did. I am still unable to
> get it working. Any ideas?
>
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