What's your tools_upload_flavor? https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware-iso.html#tools_upload_flavor
On Feb 6, 2018 22:27, "William" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am using packer to build Alpine Linux on ESXi 6.5 from macOS 10.13 and > everything is working great except for one thing. It throws the following > error: > > "Build 'vmware' errored: Couldn't mount VMware tools ISO. Please check the > 'guest_os_type' in your template.json." > > I am using a value of "guest_os_type": "otherlinux-64", > > Which in my case is fine since I am using open-vm-tools. But this exits > non-gracefully and therefore I can't use post provisioners. > > Is there a way to skip mounting the tools and exit gracefully? At least it > exits and still exports the OVA so I get a working build out of the process. > > > Thanks for the help. > > -- > 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/d406ad01-6f75-4b1a-bf56-07a7d3adb31c%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/d406ad01-6f75-4b1a-bf56-07a7d3adb31c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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/CALz9Rt_t%2Bnm%3DQvYCLz56QX9vQCM08zdESo_0HhPFj4gpLPrxmg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
