Hi Packer list
I'm new to Packer and I've not been able able to get it to produce a
qemu/kvm image successfully yet. My host system is Ubuntu 17.10 amd64 (ufw
firewall is disabled) running packer 1.1.1 and I am trying to create an
image from CentOS 6.9 - I have tried both the minimal and full DVD CentOS
ISOs.
When I run:
packer build centos6-kvm.json
CentOS boots, it installs fine then it powers the VM off and all I am left
with is the message:
qemu: Waiting for SSH to become available...
SSH never does become available so I have to kill packer.
I have searched these groups for similar issues. I noticed someone else
having this same same issue with qemu/KVM but that user didn't post their
solution, if they ever did get it to work. I tried to deviate from the
given example configs as little as possible.
Here are my current configs:
centos6-kvm.json:
{
"builders":
[
{
"type": "qemu",
"iso_url": "/home/dan/Downloads/CentOS-6.9-x86_64-minimal.iso",
"iso_checksum": "af4a1640c0c6f348c6c41f1ea9e192a2",
"iso_checksum_type": "md5",
"output_directory": "output_centos6test",
"shutdown_command": "shutdown -P now",
"disk_size": 5000,
"format": "qcow2",
"headless": false,
"accelerator": "kvm",
"http_directory": "/var/www/html/",
"http_port_min": 10082,
"http_port_max": 10089,
"ssh_host_port_min": 2222,
"ssh_host_port_max": 2229,
"ssh_username": "root",
"ssh_password": "longishpassword",
"ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
"vm_name": "c6test",
"net_device": "virtio-net",
"disk_interface": "virtio",
"boot_wait": "5s",
"boot_command": [
"<tab> text ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort
}}/centos6-ks.cfg<enter><wait>"
]
}
]
}
centos6-ks.cfg:
text
skipx
install
url --url http://mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/6/os/x86_64/
repo --name=updates
--baseurl=http://mirrorservice.org/sites/mirror.centos.org/6/updates/x86_64/
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
rootpw longishpassword
firewall --disable
authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
selinux --disabled
timezone Etc/UTC
%include /tmp/kspre.cfg
services --enabled=network,sshd/sendmail
poweroff
%packages --nobase
at
acpid
cronie-noanacron
crontabs
logrotate
mailx
mlocate
openssh-clients
openssh-server
rsync
sendmail
tmpwatch
vixie-cron
which
wget
yum
-biosdevname
-postfix
-prelink
%end
%pre
bootdrive=vda
if [ -f "/dev/$bootdrive" ] ; then
exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3
chvt 3
echo "ERROR: Drive device does not exist at /dev/$bootdrive!"
sleep 5
halt -f
fi
cat >/tmp/kspre.cfg <<CFG
zerombr
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=$bootdrive --append="nomodeset"
clearpart --all --initlabel
part /boot --ondrive=$bootdrive --fstype ext4 --fsoptions="relatime,nodev"
--size=512
part pv.1 --ondrive=$bootdrive --size 1 --grow
volgroup vg0 pv.1
logvol / --fstype ext4 --fsoptions="noatime,nodiratime,relatime,nodev"
--name=root --vgname=vg0 --size=4096
logvol swap --fstype swap --name=swap --vgname=vg0 --size 1 --grow
CFG
%end
%post
%end
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