hello it seems the installation didn't put your user into vmware group
can you check? id <username> if vmware is in the output then log off / log on should the trick if vmware group is not there i would check the documentation and see what went missed but checking on internet, could be just matter of . usermod -a -G vmware <user> check then id <user> and if group is there, log off / log on Alvaro On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 9:26 PM, Andy Fraley <[email protected]> wrote: > This is more of a VMWare issue, but I'm hoping someone has found an > elegant workaround. I'm using VMWare Workstation 12 on CentOS 7 and > running Packer as an unprivileged user. Using the vmware-iso builder, it > needs access to /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases to get the VM ip > address. However, this file is owned by root with perms set at 600. I > changed it to 644 but a short time later it had reverted to 600, so I > assume the file is being overwritten. > > This may have something to do with root defaulting to a umask of 077 on > our systems, though. > > -- > 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/5e2e0afb-d07d-4f63-b894-5ec4770d2623%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/5e2e0afb-d07d-4f63-b894-5ec4770d2623%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CAHqq0ezdb1NfsHaZYq1xroKVegjiKhxQrEUzCUVG_KcjkeWAQA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
