hi below is my kickstart file
=== #### # KICKSTART #### ##key --skip rootpw xxxx network --bootproto dhcp --hostname testserver timezone --utc US/Pacific eula --agreed services --enabled=sshd services --disabled=NetworkManager part /tmp --fstype=xfs --size=16000 --asprimary --ondisk=sda part swap --size=16000 --ondisk=sda part /boot --fstype=xfs --size=256 --ondisk=sda part /home --fstype=xfs --size=12000 --ondisk=sda part /var/log --fstype=xfs --size=16000 --ondisk=sda part / --fstype=xfs --size=64000 --ondisk=sda part /apps --fstype=xfs --size=1 --grow --ondisk=sda #### # KICKSTART COMMON #### install text reboot keyboard us lang en_US.UTF-8 authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5 firewall --disabled selinux --disabled zerombr bootloader --location=mbr clearpart --all --initlabel #### # Setting Up Repos #### repo --name="centos-7" --baseurl="http://opsrep/RHEL/centos/7/os/x86_64/"; %packages @core net-tools policycoreutils screen tree vim wget %end %pre wget http://kickstart/users/users.sh -O /tmp/users.sh %end %post --nochroot mv /tmp/users.sh /mnt/sysimage/tmp/users.sh %end %post sh /tmp/users.sh rm -f /tmp/users.sh %end # EOF ==== I have tried removing biosdevname rpm and also tried adding net.ifnames=0 option in the above boot loader options..but no luck. shan On Thursday, December 14, 2017 at 8:23:02 PM UTC-8, Shankar Bala wrote: > > Hi All > > I have packer config file that uploads ISO to esxi server and run our > kickstart file..it uses dhcp and this works perfectly on centos6 box., > whereas on centos7 same config doesn't work. > > I noticed that packer is created the vm and then finally it timeout while > doing ssh to it. > > I logged into the vm., and I noticed the vm is not getting dhcp ip ., > whereas packer logs shows the ip of the vm. To fix this., I manually login > to the console of the vm., then type "dhclient <interface name>"..as soon > as I do this., packer continue to finish the post processor task and my > template is getting created. > > however I want to avoid this manual interventions..is it due to interface > name of centos7 as its not eth0 by default ? > > any idea on this ? > > Shan > > > -- 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/b50a83b6-f151-48a3-bed4-a3dd610eb9ba%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
