hello there is no template in standalone ESXi
can you clone a VM into a template in that ESXi directly? Alvaro. On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 1:45 PM, Hendrik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm building a vm with packer and vmware-iso on a second esxi node. This > node is not connected to the vsphere-cluster where the vm should be > published. > Copying the image to the cluster with vmware-iso works but > vsphere-template fails with an error: > > vmware-iso (vsphere): Completed successfully > vmware-iso (vsphere): > ==> vmware-iso: Running post-processor: vsphere-template > vmware-iso (vsphere-template): Waiting 10s for VMware vSphere to start > vmware-iso (vsphere-template): Choosing datacenter... > vmware-iso (vsphere-template): Creating or checking destination > folders... > vmware-iso (vsphere-template): Marking as a template... > ==> vmware-iso (vsphere-template): VM at path /DC02/vm/Discovered virtual > machine/centos7_1711 not found > > I dont know how packer assembles this path. > My json looks like this: > > { > "builders": [ > { > "boot_command": [ > "<tab> text ks=hd:fd0:/ks.cfg ip=dhcp > <enter><wait><wait><enter>" > ], > "boot_wait": "10s", > "disk_size": "{{user `disk_size`}}", > "disk_type_id": "thin", > "floppy_files": [ > "anaconda/ks.cfg" > ], > "format": "ovf", > "guest_os_type": "rhel7-64", > "headless": "true", > "iso_checksum": "bba314624956961a2ea31dd460cd86 > 0a77911c1e0a56e4820a12b9c5dad363f5", > "iso_checksum_type": "sha256", > "iso_url": "http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley. > edu/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso", > "keep_registered": "true", > "output_directory": "output-{{build_type}}", > "remote_cache_datastore": "{{user `datastore`}}", > "remote_cache_directory": "cache", > "remote_datastore": "{{user `esxi_datastore`}}", > "remote_host": "{{user `esxi_host`}}", > "remote_password": "{{user `esxi_password`}}", > "remote_type": "esx5", > "remote_username": "{{user `esxi_user`}}", > "shutdown_command": "echo {{user `ssh_pass`}} | sudo -S > systemctl poweroff", > "ssh_password": "{{user `ssh_pass`}}", > "ssh_timeout": "{{user `ssh_timeout`}}", > "ssh_username": "{{user `ssh_name`}}", > "type": "vmware-iso", > "vm_name": "{{user `image_name`}}", > "vmx_data": { > "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "2", > "ethernet0.networkName": "VM Network", > "ethernet0.virtualDev": "vmxnet3", > "memsize": "1024", > "numvcpus": "2" > } > } > ], > "post-processors": [ > [{ > "cluster": "{{user `vsphere_prod_cluster`}}", > "datacenter": "{{user `vsphere_prod_datacenter`}}", > "datastore": "{{user `vsphere_prod_datastore`}}", > "host": "{{user `vsphere_prod_host`}}", > "insecure": "true", > "overwrite": "true", > "password": "{{user `vsphere_prod_pass`}}", > "resource_pool": " ", > "type": "vsphere", > "username": "{{user `vsphere_prod_username`}}", > "vm_folder": "/packer-templates/os/{{user `image_name`}}", > "vm_name": "{{user `image_name`}}" > }, > { > "datacenter": "{{user `vsphere_prod_datacenter`}}", > "folder": "/packer-templates/os/{{user `image_name`}}", > "host": "{{user `vsphere_prod_host`}}", > "insecure": true, > "password": "{{user `vsphere_prod_pass`}}", > "type": "vsphere-template", > "username": "{{user `vsphere_prod_username`}}" > }], > { > "cluster": "{{user `vsphere_dev_cluster`}}", > "datacenter": "{{user `vsphere_dev_datacenter`}}", > "datastore": "{{user `vsphere_dev_datastore`}}", > "host": "{{user `vsphere_dev_host`}}", > "insecure": "true", > "overwrite": "true", > "password": "{{user `vsphere_dev_pass`}}", > "resource_pool": " ", > "type": "vsphere", > "username": "{{user `vsphere_dev_username`}}", > "vm_folder": "/packer-templates/os/{{user `image_name`}}", > "vm_name": "{{user `image_name`}}" > }, > { > "datacenter": "{{user `vsphere_dev_datacenter`}}", > "folder": "/packer-templates/os/{{user `image_name`}}", > "host": "{{user `vsphere_dev_host`}}", > "insecure": true, > "password": "{{user `vsphere_dev_pass`}}", > "type": "vsphere-template", > "username": "{{user `vsphere_dev_username`}}" > } > ], > "provisioners": [ > { > "ansible_env_vars": [ > "ANSIBLE_NOCOWS=1" > ], > "extra_arguments": [ > "--extra-vars", > "ansible_become_pass={{user `ssh_pass`}} > ansible_become_user=root ansible_ssh_user={{user `ssh_name`}} > ansible_become=true ansible_ssh_pass={{user `ssh_pass`}} > ansible_become_method=sudo root_pass={{user `root_pass`}} admin=pass={{user > `admin_pass`}}" > ], > "playbook_file": "../ansible/bootstrap-{{user > `image_name`}}/bootstrap.yml", > "type": "ansible", > "user": "{{user `ssh_name`}}" > } > ], > "variables": { > "admin_pass": "", > "disk_size": "20480", > "esxi_datastore": "", > "esxi_host": "", > "esxi_password": "", > "esxi_user": "", > "hostname": "centos", > "image_name": "centos7_1711", > "memory": "1024", > "root_pass": "", > "ssh_name": "administrator", > "ssh_pass": "administrator", > "ssh_timeout": "20m", > "vsphere_dev_address": "", > "vsphere_dev_datacenter": "", > "vsphere_dev_datastore": "", > "vsphere_dev_host": "", > "vsphere_dev_pass": "", > "vsphere_dev_username": "", > "vsphere_prod_address": "", > "vsphere_prod_datacenter": "", > "vsphere_prod_datastore": "", > "vsphere_prod_host": "", > "vsphere_prod_pass": "", > "vsphere_prod_username": "" > } > } > > Packer version is 1.1.2. > Does anybody have a working .json on this setup? > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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