thank you, the problem was some of my syntax needed to be updated to rhel7
verbage, and I figured it out by breaking up my pieces thanks to Gabo Kete,
much appreciated
On Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 10:06:48 AM UTC-7, Stacy wrote:
>
> 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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