hello. OVA is a container format, when packer is building a VM, defaults to OVF. you can ask packer to use ova when doing the last export.
To answer your question, no, packer wont build 1 OVA with 4 VMS. but, packer can build the 4 VMS you want and have 4 folders with 4 OVF. then you could run some script or manual commands and create 1 OVA with the 4 VMs. Alvaro On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:51 PM Jack T <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. I'm trying to decide if Packer can fit my use case. Right now, my > build process is to create 4 VMs in VirtualBox using Vagrant and provision > them with ansible. I then run a bash script to do final cleanups of each VM > and then I export all 4 together as 1 OVA file. Can Packer do this? From > what I've seen, Packer can only manage 1 VM at a time. Yes, it can handle > multiple providers (ie: build AMI, build docker, build VBox) but that's not > what I need. I'm looking for a tool that can create my 4 VMs in VirtualBox, > run provisioning, and then export 1 OVA file for distribution. Thanks! > > -- > 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/d156c945-24fe-4e2e-96f6-d8f3587a826b%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/d156c945-24fe-4e2e-96f6-d8f3587a826b%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Alvaro -- 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/CAHqq0exSt%3D-ZVY4XoXXnyGRkN6ujkcAGeojwkUtV7XrnNQazyQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
