Hello I think you are hitting a chicken egg issue.
You cna't download the KS since there is NO IP setup on the guest, and the guest IP setup is in the KS. Not sure in QEMU but for other providers you can use floppy, that doesn't require networking, so that does the trick. On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:51 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > I am currently attempting to generate a virtual machine image with packer > to help automate our node creation process. > Every node we've made thus far with virtual machine manager has been > copied off a base node and connects to the network via macvtap. > These macvtaps appear to be automatically generated after you select the > configuration in the virtual machine manager then boot up the VM. > They can also manually be configured > <https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/linuxonibm/liaag/wkvm/wkvm_c_net_macvtap.htm> > via the XML that is passed to Virt-manager > > Auto-generated XML example of macvtap(redacted mac): > <interface type='direct'> > <mac address='XX:XX:XX:YY:YY:YY'/> > <source dev='enp1s0f0' mode='bridge'/> > <model type='virtio'/> > <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x03' function= > '0x0'/> > </interface> > > The trouble I'm having is figuring out how it goes about generating these > macvtaps and successfully connecting to the intranet by passing the device > info via qemuargs. > I've tried a couple of options; namely here > <https://gist.github.com/mcastelino/43cc733e53d65ef67452ecaf78e936c2> and > here <https://virt.kernelnewbies.org/MacVTap> and usually receive an > error like: "TUNSETOFFLOAD ioctl() failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device" > > The use of a bridge or user generated network is unavailable to me and > results in ssh timeouts whether it cant establish a handshake or it > timeouts on the loopback lookup. > > Packer json (redacted mac): > > "builders": > [ > { > "type": "qemu", > "name": "packer-base", > "qemu_binary": "/usr/libexec/qemu-kvm", > "vm_name": "packer-base", > "iso_url": "/root/Downloads/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1708.iso", > "iso_checksum": "aae20c8052a55cf179af88d9dd35f1a889cd5773", > "iso_checksum_type": "sha1", > "output_directory": "./centos-built", > "shutdown_command": "shutdown -P now", > "disk_size": 5000, > "format": "qcow2", > "headless" : false, > "accelerator": "kvm", > "http_directory": "httpdir", > "http_port_min": 10082, > "http_port_max": 10089, > "ssh_host_port_min": 2222, > "ssh_host_port_max": 2229, > "ssh_username": "root", > "ssh_password": "somepass", > "ssh_port": 22, > "ssh_timeout": "30s", > "ssh_wait_timeout": "2m", > "net_device": "virtio-net", > "disk_interface": "virtio", > "qemuargs": [ > [ "-netdev", "tap,fd=3,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=4" ], > [ "-device", "virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=XX:XX:XX: > YY:YY:YY" ] > ], > "boot_wait": "7s", > "boot_command": [ > "<tab> text ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort > }}/centos7_2-ks.cfg<enter><wait>" > ] > } > ] > } > > ks file > #platform=x86, AMD64, or Intel EM64T > #version=DEVEL > # Install OS instead of upgrade > > skipx > install > # Keyboard layouts > # old format: keyboard us > # new format: > keyboard --vckeymap=us --xlayouts='us' > # Root password > rootpw --iscrypted somepassbutencrypted > # System language > lang en_US.UTF-8 > > # Firewall configuration > firewall --disabled > # System authorization information > auth --useshadow --passalgo=sha512 > # Use text mode install > # Run the Setup Agent on first boot > firstboot --enable > # Use http > url --url http://mirror.raystedman.net/centos/7/os/x86_64/ > repo --name=updates --baseurl=http://mirror.raystedman.net/centos/7/ > updates/x86_64/ > # SELinux configuration > selinux --disabled > > # System services > services --disabled="chronyd" > services --enabled=NetworkManager,sshd > user --name=hsimage --plaintext --password hsimage > ignoredisk --only-use=vda > # Network information > network --bootproto=static --device=eth0 --gateway=172.31.0.1 --ip=172.31 > .1.152 --netmask=255.255.0.0 --nameserver=10.2.1.205,10.2.1.225 --onboot=yes > --activate > > # System timezone > timezone America/Los_Angeles --nontp > # System bootloader configuration > bootloader --append=" crashkernel=auto" --location=none --boot-drive=vda > autopart --type=lvm > # Partition clearing information > clearpart --all --initlabel > # restart after installation > reboot > > %packages > @^minimal > @core > kexec-tools > git > %end > > %post > > sed -i "s/#PermitRootLogin yes/PermitRootLogin yes/g" /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > > > %end > > Qemu commandline documentation > <http://qemu.weilnetz.de/doc/qemu-doc.html#Network-options> > > example configuration from existing VM retrieved via 'ps' command(redacted > mac): > > ps -ef | grep qemu-kvm > > -netdev tap,fd=29,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,vhostfd=32 > -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=hostnet0,id=net0,mac=XX:XX:XX:YY:YY:YY,bus= > pci.0,addr=0x3 > > There is just something I'm not quite getting with preliminary vm network > configuration that is preventing me from making a tap connection work. > > Let me know if there is any additional info that is needed and thanks in > advance for any help! 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