packer talk to esxi

esxi only have normal networks


distributed groups etc exists on vcenter, not on esxi

so you can :

- have a provisioning network, so packer can build
- have a iso and make packer build offline using vmware-iso
- try packer vcenter plugin

https://github.com/jetbrains-infra/packer-builder-vsphere

alvaro

On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 8:53 PM PaulG <[email protected]> wrote:

> I really am stumped. When look at the "Networks" in VSphere client, there
> are none connected.  If I manually connect, packer will continue, but the
> template will not boot with network either.
>
> On Tuesday, December 11, 2018 at 11:36:45 AM UTC-8, PaulG wrote:
>>
>> Using packer 1.3.3, I seem not to be able to get the network to connect.
>> I have to go into the Vsphere console and select the network and click
>> connect. I am at a loss.
>>
>>   "vmx_data": {
>> "ethernet0.virtualDev" : "vmxnet3",
>> "ethernet0.dvs.switchId": "50 3c dd 68 6a 5d a4 ec-07 2e 83 e6 a1 81 18
>> 86",
>> "ethernet0.pciSlotNumber":"192",
>> "ethernet0.startConnected": "TRUE",
>> "ethernet0.present": "TRUE",
>> "ethernet0.networkName":"VLAN1216",
>> "ethernet0.uptCompatibility": "TRUE",
>> "ethernet0.addressType": "vpx",
>> "ethernet0.uptCompatibility": "TRUE",
>>
>> "virtualhw.productcompatibility" : "esx",
>> "virtualhw.version" : "13",
>> "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "2",
>> "memsize": "2048",
>> "scsi0.virtualDev": "pvscsi",
>>
>> "numvcpus": "2"
>> },
>>
>> I really don't know what else to do.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> -Paul
>>
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