have you tried to add an eject to the kickstart ?

its the OS iso the one that keeps mounted?

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Mukarram <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Alvaro,
>
> The guest OS is CentOS 7.4
>
> Thanks for the reply
>
> Regards
>
> # mukarram
>
> On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 9:41:21 AM UTC-8, Alvaro Miranda
> Aguilera wrote:
>>
>> when you weite 1.1.3/1.1.2 have issues, that means 1.1.1 and earlier do
>> have not ?
>>
>> What os is the guest os ?
>>
>> Alvaro
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Mukarram <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>> I know you've seen this problem before, however I am having the issue
>>> now.
>>> I have tried these settings about a 100 times in the last 2 days but
>>> none of them work.
>>>
>>> Basically  the "vm_data_post" does not work...at least it looks that way:
>>>
>>> I tried this:
>>>     "vmx_data_post": {
>>>         "ide1:0.startConnected": "TRUE",
>>>         "ide1:0.clientDevice": "TRUE",
>>>         "ide1:0.fileName": "emptyBackingString"
>>>     },
>>>
>>> This:
>>>     "vmx_data_post": {
>>> "ide1:0.deviceType" : "atapi-cdrom",
>>> "ide1:0.fileName" : "emptyBackingString",
>>> "ide1:0.present" : "TRUE",
>>> "ide1:0.clientDevice" : "TRUE"
>>>   },
>>>
>>> And also I tried the "inline" in the "post-processor" section with the
>>> "vmware-cmd" script, that also didn't work.  It "invalidates" the VM.
>>> So before I create the template, I start the VM, try to disconnect the
>>> "CD/DVD drive 1" and then power off the VM.
>>>
>>>   "post-processors": [
>>>      [
>>>        {
>>>         "inline": [
>>>           "/opt/scripts/vmware-perl-sdk/bin/vmware-cmd -U {{ user
>>> `source_esxi_user` }} -P {{ user `source_esxi_password` }} -H {{ user
>>> `VCENTER_IP` }} --vihost {{ user `REMOTE_ESXI` }} /vmfs/volumes/{{ user
>>> `REMOTE_DATASTORE` }}/output-vmware-iso/{{ user `vm_name` }}.vmx start
>>> soft",
>>>           "/opt/scripts/vmware-perl-sdk/bin/vmware-cmd -U {{ user
>>> `source_esxi_user` }} -P {{ user `source_esxi_password` }} -H {{ user
>>> `VCENTER_IP` }} --vihost {{ user `REMOTE_ESXI` }} /vmfs/volumes/{{ user
>>> `REMOTE_DATASTORE` }}/output-vmware-iso/{{ user `vm_name` }}.vmx
>>> disconnectdevice \"CD/DVD drive 1\"",
>>>           "/opt/scripts/vmware-perl-sdk/bin/vmware-cmd -U {{ user
>>> `source_esxi_user` }} -P {{ user `source_esxi_password` }} -H {{ user
>>> `VCENTER_IP` }} --vihost {{ user `REMOTE_ESXI` }} /vmfs/volumes/{{ user
>>> `REMOTE_DATASTORE` }}/output-vmware-iso/{{ user `vm_name` }}.vmx suspend
>>> soft"
>>>         ],
>>>         "type": "shell-local"
>>>        }
>>>      ]
>>>
>>> So I am outta luck now.
>>>
>>> Please help.
>>>
>>> # mukarram
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