Hello Aaron, If you have other uses for OVA then its fine but if you exclusively using it to upload to vSphere then its not required as the vSphere post-processor uses the ovftool to convert the generated vmx and uploads it to the vCenter as a OVF Template (in vSphere Client you see it as a VM) and then the vSphere-teplate marks it as template.
Thanks On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 5:07 PM, Aaron Kulbe <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m using the ovftool post-processor because I also want to generate an > OVA for use outside of vSphere. Are you saying I can still do that with the > vSphere plugin? > > > > *From: *<[email protected]> on behalf of Ayesha Sultana < > [email protected]> > *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Date: *Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 1:36 PM > > *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [packer] vsphere-template post-processor syntax > > > > Hello Aaron, > > I am not sure why you are using the ovftool post-processor - as the > vsphere already does that. For your code to work use this format: > > "post-processors": [ > > [ > > { > > "type": "vagrant", > > }, > > { > > "type": "vsphere", > > }, > > { > > "type": "vsphere-template", > > } > > ] > > ] > > > > The reason to have it in the [] block is to pass the artifact from the > previous post-processor - specially in case of using the vSphere and the > vSphere-template (to mark it as template it needs to know what was > processed by the vSphere post processor) I really feel that you don't need > the ovftool processor. > > > > Try this within the array block of [] and it should work. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 3:03 PM, Aaron Kulbe <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Alvaro, > > > > Thank you for responding. I have four total post-processors running, as > shown below. If I use the double brackets as you mentioned previously, and > try them around all four post-processors, it doesn’t work. If I > double-bracket around just vsphere and vsphere-template, and remove vagrant > and ovftool blocks, it works. Is there any way to do all four > post-processors? I’m not sure how to format it. > > > > "post-processors": [ > > { > > "type": "vagrant", > > }, > > { > > "type": "ovftool", > > }, > > { > > "type": "vsphere", > > }, > > { > > "type": "vsphere-template", > > } > > ] > > > > *From: *<[email protected]> on behalf of Alvaro Miranda > Aguilera <[email protected]> > *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Date: *Tuesday, May 8, 2018 at 8:17 AM > *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]> > *Subject: *Re: [packer] vsphere-template post-processor syntax > > > > Hello > > check the documentation > > > > are double brackets > > > > [ [ ] ] > > > > https://www.packer.io/docs/post-processors/vsphere- > template.html#using-the-vsphere-template-with-local-builders > > > > alvaro > > -- > This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - > https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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