great help for your support! 
is there any command or tool to check/find the syntax issue for the json 
file ?
I have tried fix/inspect/validate, no one works.



On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 1:33:39 PM UTC+8, Rickard von Essen wrote:
>
> You are missing on pair of [ ] in your vboxmanage_post command, it should 
> be:
>
> "vboxmanage_post": [
>     ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", "bridged"]
> ],
>
> On 25 January 2018 at 06:21, JerryWang <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote:
>
>>
>> from the debug log info : 
>>
>>
>> 2018/01/25 10:25:32 ui: ask: ==> vboxOvfBuilder: Pausing after run of 
>> step 'StepProvision'. Press enter to continue.
>> 2018/01/25 10:25:43 ui: ==> vboxOvfBuilder: Gracefully halting virtual 
>> machine...
>> 2018/01/25 10:25:43 packer: 2018/01/25 10:25:43 Executing shutdown 
>> command: shutdown -P now
>> 2018/01/25 10:25:43 packer: 2018/01/25 10:25:43 opening new ssh session
>> 2018/01/25 10:25:43 packer: 2018/01/25 10:25:43 starting remote command: 
>> shutdown -P now
>> 2018/01/25 10:25:44 packer: 2018/01/25 10:25:44 Remote command exited 
>> without exit status or exit signal.
>> 2018/01/25 10:25:44 packer: 2018/01/25 10:25:44 Waiting max 5m0s for 
>> shutdown to complete
>> 2018/01/25 10:25:54 packer: 2018/01/25 10:25:54 VM shut down.
>> 2018/01/25 10:25:54 ui: ask: ==> vboxOvfBuilder: Pausing after run of 
>> step 'StepShutdown'. Press enter to continue.
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:41 ui: ask: ==> vboxOvfBuilder: Pausing after run of 
>> step 'StepRemoveDevices'. Press enter to continue.
>>
>>
>> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 ui: ==> vboxOvfBuilder: Executing custom VBoxManage 
>> commands...
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 ui:     vboxOvfBuilder: Executing: modifyvm
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer: 2018/01/25 10:26:44 Executing VBoxManage: 
>> []string{"modifyvm"}
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer: 2018/01/25 10:26:44 stdout: Usage:
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer: 
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer: VBoxManage modifyvm         <uuid|vmname>
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--name <name>]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--groups 
>> <group>, ...]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--description 
>> <desc>]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--ostype 
>> <ostype>]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--iconfile 
>> <filename>]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--memory 
>> <memorysize in MB>]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--pagefusion 
>> on|off]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--vram <vramsize 
>> in MB>]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--acpi on|off]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--pciattach 
>> 03:04.0]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--pciattach 
>> 03:04.0@02:01.0]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--pcidetach 
>> 03:04.0]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--ioapic on|off]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--hpet on|off]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                            
>>  [--triplefaultreset on|off]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--apic on|off]
>> 2018/01/25 10:26:44 packer:                             [--x2apic on|off]
>>
>> ..........................................................................................................................
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, January 25, 2018 at 1:00:17 PM UTC+8, Rickard von Essen 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> What's the error message? 
>>>
>>> On Jan 25, 2018 04:30, "JerryWang" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> thanks for your reply. 
>>>> this json can be working successfully,
>>>>
>>>>       "vboxmanage"           : [
>>>>         [ "modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--memory", "{{user `memSize`}}"],
>>>>         [ "modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--cpus",   "{{user `cpuCount`}}" ],
>>>>         [ "modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", "nat"]
>>>>       ],
>>>>
>>>> if i add  vboxmanage_post 
>>>> <https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-iso.html#vboxmanage_post>  
>>>> like 
>>>> this,
>>>>      "vboxmanage_post": ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", "bridged"],
>>>>      
>>>> but when running the json, vboxmanage run failed, can you help to tell 
>>>> me what's the problem with my json file ?
>>>> my packer version is 1.1.3. 
>>>>
>>>> from my point, after vm was poweroff, can {{.Name}} point to the new 
>>>> created vm ? 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> the full json file is: 
>>>> {
>>>>   "description"              : "import a existing ova and pull image 
>>>> and then export to as a ova image",
>>>>
>>>>   "variables"                : {
>>>>     "diskImg"                : "/vmimage/OMSP.ova",
>>>>     "vmName"                 : "OracleLinux7u4_vbox",
>>>>     "memSize"                : "2048",
>>>>     "cpuCount"               : "1",
>>>>     "diskSize"               : "36720",
>>>>     "diskFmt"                : "ova",
>>>>     "chefCookbooks"          : "cookbooks",
>>>>     "nicInterFace"           : "eno1",
>>>>     "chefRunlist"            : "recipe[httpd]"
>>>>   },
>>>>
>>>>   "builders"                 : [{
>>>>       "type"                 : "virtualbox-ovf",
>>>>       "name"                 : "vboxOvfBuilder",
>>>>       "vboxmanage"           : [
>>>>         [ "modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--memory", "{{user `memSize`}}"],
>>>>         [ "modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--cpus",   "{{user `cpuCount`}}" ],
>>>>         [ "modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", "nat"]
>>>>       ],
>>>>      "vboxmanage_post": ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", "bridged"],
>>>>       "export_opts":
>>>>       [
>>>>       "--manifest",
>>>>       "--vsys", "0",
>>>>       "--description", "create vm with nat and then change to bridged",
>>>>       "--version", "2.0"
>>>>       ],
>>>>       "source_path"          : "{{user `diskImg`}}",
>>>>       "format"               : "{{user `diskFmt`}}",
>>>>       "headless"             : true,
>>>>       "vrdp_bind_address"    : "0.0.0.0",
>>>>       "ssh_host_port_min"    : 2222,
>>>>       "ssh_host_port_max"    : 2229,
>>>>       "output_directory"     : "images-{{timestamp}}",
>>>>       "communicator"         : "ssh",
>>>>       "ssh_port"             : 22,
>>>>       "ssh_username"         : "root",
>>>>       "ssh_password"         : "welcome1",
>>>>       "ssh_wait_timeout"     : "1500s",
>>>>       "vm_name"              : 
>>>> "oraclelinux7u4-vbox_bridge_1nat-{{timestamp}}",
>>>>       "shutdown_command"     : "shutdown -P now"
>>>>     }
>>>>   ],
>>>>   "provisioners": [{
>>>>       "type"                 : "shell",
>>>>       "script"               : "scripts/getimage.sh"
>>>>     }
>>>>   ]
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 10:03:36 PM UTC+8, Rickard von Essen 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> See 
>>>>> https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-iso.html#vboxmanage_post
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 24, 2018 14:11, "JerryWang" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>  this steps should be done after provioner  ( and vm was poweroff ), 
>>>>>> where to put this operation ?  builder ? or  post-processor ?
>>>>>> thanks. 
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