Hello Rickard, Thank you for your response.
I didn't get you, are you saying that we should have http server in our environment and we need to upload preseed.cfg file over that http server and then we need to use IP and port of that http server? If this the the prerequisites according to current scenario then we don't have http server at our end. On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 3:37:52 PM UTC+5:30, Rickard von Essen wrote: > > Your preseed.cfg file should be in the http directory (specified > by "http_directory": "http"). And it will be availible to the VM on HTTP > and loaded by the installer by this part of the boot_command: > > preseed/url=http://{{.HTTPIP}}:{{.HTTPPort}}/preseed.cfg > > There {{.HTTPIP}}:{{.HTTPPort}} will be replaced with the actual IP and > port of a http-server that packer will start. > > All of these things seems ok (if you putt the preseed.cfg in the http > directory), but you need to be able to run (and start a VM manually) in > VirtualBox without it core dumping. > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:56 AM Tekchand Dagar <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hello Rickard, >> >> Thank you for your quick response. >> >> I am also confused with preseed.cfg i have copied that .json template >> from internet and using. I need to specify the full URL for preseed.cfg or >> can i create preseed.cfg file at my packer machine and specify the file >> path in .json template? >> >> Below is the link for preseed.cfg file but i didn't specify it anywhere >> in my .json template. >> >> *https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pavel-klimiankou/packer-example/master/http/preseed.cfg >> >> <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pavel-klimiankou/packer-example/master/http/preseed.cfg>* >> >> How we can check the VM console because i don't have GUI mode for my >> packer machine. When i am trying to run the virualbox over my packer >> machine i am getting below error: >> >> [image: Selection_012.png] >> >> >> I have removed the duplicate keys from my .json file. >> >> Please help me. >> >> On Monday, January 14, 2019 at 2:56:57 PM UTC+5:30, Rickard von Essen >> wrote: >>> >>> Please provide your preseed.cfg and also a screenshot of the VM console >>>> when SSH times out. Also your ssh_timeout seems way to short to install >>>> Ubuntu. Increase it to something like 15m. (And you have some duplicate >>>> keys in your config what can cause you trouble in the future). >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 10:13 AM Tekchand Dagar <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Team, >>>> >>>> I am getting the below error during virtualbox image creation: >>>> >>>> Error: >>>> >>>> Build 'virtualbox-iso' errored: Timeout waiting for SSH. >>>> >>>> Below is my .json file. >>>> >>>> { >>>> "builders": [ >>>> { >>>> "type": "virtualbox-iso", >>>> "guest_os_type": "Ubuntu_64", >>>> "iso_url": " >>>> http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-16.04.5-server-amd64.iso";, >>>> "iso_checksum": >>>> "c94de1cc2e10160f325eb54638a5b5aa38f181d60ee33dae9578d96d932ee5f8", >>>> "iso_checksum_type": "sha256", >>>> "ssh_username": "ubuntu", >>>> "output_directory": "/tek", >>>> "vm_name": "packerimage", >>>> "disk_size": "10000", >>>> "headless": "true", >>>> "http_directory": "http", >>>> "boot_wait": "2m30s", >>>> "boot_command": [ >>>> "<enter><wait>", >>>> "<f6><esc>", >>>> "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", >>>> "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", >>>> "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", >>>> "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", >>>> "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", >>>> "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", >>>> "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", >>>> "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>", >>>> "<bs><bs><bs>", >>>> "/install/vmlinuz ", >>>> "initrd=/install/initrd.gz ", >>>> "net.ifnames=0 ", >>>> "auto-install/enable=true ", >>>> "debconf/priority=critical ", >>>> >>>> "preseed/url=http://{{.HTTPIP}}:{{.HTTPPort}}/preseed.cfg";, >>>> "<enter>" >>>> ], >>>> "ssh_timeout": "1m30s", >>>> "ssh_username": "ubuntu", >>>> "ssh_password": "ubuntu", >>>> "shutdown_command": "sudo systemctl poweroff", >>>> "shutdown_command": "sudo systemctl poweroff", >>>> "vboxmanage": [ >>>> ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--memory", 512], >>>> ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--cpus", 1] >>>> ] >>>> }], >>>> "provisioners": [{ >>>> "type": "shell", >>>> "script": "ansible.sh" >>>> } >>>> ]} >>>> >>>> -- >>>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines >>>> - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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