I'm not sure how you would do that, it's likely easy to tunnel kvm with some extra qemu parameters but Packer also uses qemu-img which I think only works with local files.
On positive side is that packer is just a statically linked binary so you can easily create a script that you execute over ssh that uploads any source files, downloads packer, executes it, and export any artifact, and finally cleans up. // Rickard PS. If you in detail could describe how to execute qemu towards a remote kvm host it might be worth opening a feature request and someone might implement it. On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 23:32 Miguel Baquero <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Is there any way to run Packer inside a VM without using nested > virtualization or mounting a KVM host socket directory to it? > I would like not to have to install anything on the bare wire host, just > QEMU and the virtualization host packages. I'm using CentOS for the VM > hosts and guests. CentOS doesn't support p9 FS and configuring nfs on the > KVM is invasive to me. > Any help would be appreciated. > Thank you. > > -- > 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/a8c080ee-88fb-408b-b133-690e0f695481%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/a8c080ee-88fb-408b-b133-690e0f695481%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-StHnTeTWnBxmvNp%3DY_JWk-EMSS1oJ_ComCt%2BUFjx%3Dkg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
