Show us your template, kickstart file, and the log output and we might be able to help. Without that I can only give the general advice to run packer with env var PACKER_LOG=1 and look for what packer is trying to connect to and use that to troubleshoot the network the usual way, both from the host side and from inside the VM (open a console from vSphere).
On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 at 04:07, Steve Schofield <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm new to packer and vsphere-iso provider. I've been able provision a > centos7 build where it does an unattended install va kickstart (vsphere > 6.7). It fails on finding open-vm-tools. Could this be the reason? After > the install, the server boots back to a command prompt instead of powering > off, converting to a template. I can ssh to the server and login as root. > (yeah!) I'd prefer it turn off and convert to a template. I see on the > packer site, there is a convert_to_template property. I tried putting in > post-processors, no luck. I sense I'm close to having this work, but > stuck on Waiting for IP. > > Any tips / tricks are appreciated. I can post the ks.cfg and other files > if necessary. Newer to this community so not sure all what to post for > assistance. Thanks for your patience. > > -- > 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/c27c21ea-9370-490a-b9dc-10178a0595f5%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/c27c21ea-9370-490a-b9dc-10178a0595f5%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_Tt2sf3W7YGD81TikxiO3rC0VixwJs2O%3DMr37XUVgHiA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
