I apologize if this has been answered previously, I am new to the group,
and looking for some help. I am using packer and vmware workstation 14 to
build a RHEL 7 template. This works with our RHEL6 install, and when I
boot the iso from vmware workstation or vsphere after creating the vm it
installs just fine. However when I try and build with packer it hangs
before installing the packages. I get the dracut-initqueue timeouts and an
emergency shell. I have able to see my install media and ks file from the
emergency shell, so I know the network is working. Not sure where to look
for the problem, I have gone through the rdsosreport.txt file and do not
see anything glaring. Here is my packer json and variables json and the
command I am running to build.
Hangs at RTNETLINK answers: File exists
then times out
packer build -var-file variables.json foundation_template.json
variables.json
{
"ssh_username" : "root",
"ssh_password" : "password",
"output_dir" : "/var/packer/vmware/vmware-iso-rh7"
}
foundation.json
{
"builders":
[
{
"type" : "vmware-iso",
"boot_command":
[
"<wait>",
"<enter>",
"<wait>"
],
"headless" : true,
"disk_type_id" : "0",
"vnc_bind_address" : "0.0.0.0",
"vnc_port_min" : "5900",
"vnc_port_max" : "5910",
"vnc_disable_password" : true,
"iso_url" : "iso/rhel7_base.iso",
"iso_checksum" : "e4bee7df9c1820035c47f200a2176e81",
"iso_checksum_type" : "md5",
"output_directory" : "{{user `output_dir`}}",
"guest_os_type" : "rhel7-64",
"disk_size" : "64000",
"shutdown_command" : "/sbin/halt -p",
"ssh_wait_timeout" : "2700s",
"ssh_username" : "{{user `ssh_username`}}",
"ssh_password" : "{{user `ssh_password`}}",
"skip_compaction" : true,
"vmx_data" : {
"ethernet0.virtualDev" :
"vmxnet3",
"scsi0.virtualDev" :
"pvscsi"
},
"vm_name" : "rhel7-tmplate"
}
],
"provisioners":
[
{
"type" : "shell",
"script" : "scripts/run_updates.sh"
},
{
"type" : "shell",
"script" : "scripts/reset_network.sh"
}
]
}
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