Would you mind providing your full Packer file for the working config? JP Toto
________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Andrew Meyer <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 8:50 PM To: Packer Subject: Re: [packer] creating vms on standalone esxi host Got it working! It was my guest_os_type. On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 5:47:44 PM UTC-6, Andrew Meyer wrote: Yes, I can create a new VM with the same specs manually. On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 2:58:42 PM UTC-6, Rickard von Essen wrote: Could you start a VM with the same configuration manualy on the ESXi? On Thu, Jan 24, 2019, 21:39 Andrew Meyer <[email protected] wrote: Got the same retry limit exceeded error. On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 2:03:01 PM UTC-6, Andrew Meyer wrote: Good to know, trying that now. On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 1:56:57 PM UTC-6, Stan Dorsett wrote: I also just noticed the 'connect via VNC with the password' in the logs. I typically use '"vnc_disable_password": true' to disable vnc passwords like in this example: https://github.com/sdorsett/packer-centos7-esxi/blob/master/templates/centos-7-1708.01.json#L28 Stan On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 1:51:03 PM UTC-6, Andrew Meyer wrote: I don't think I did that one. But I know I enabled esxupdate. On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 1:45:48 PM UTC-6, Stan Dorsett wrote: Have you enabled the ESXi firewall to allow inbound VNC connections? # open inbound VNC connections on the firewall esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r gdbserver Stan. On Thursday, January 24, 2019 at 11:58:17 AM UTC-6, Andrew Meyer wrote: Ok so I got much further. I fixed the problems I was seeing w/ the ovftool. However now I am getting this error message: packer build vmware/new-centos2.json centos7base output will be in this color. ==> centos7base: Retrieving ISO 1 items: 918.00 MiB / 918.00 MiB [========================================================================================================] 1m46s centos7base: Transferred: http://10.150.1.9/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso<http://10.150.1.9/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1810.iso> ==> centos7base: Uploading ISO to remote machine... ==> centos7base: Creating required virtual machine disks ==> centos7base: Building and writing VMX file ==> centos7base: Registering remote VM... ==> centos7base: Starting virtual machine... centos7base: The VM will be run headless, without a GUI. If you want to centos7base: view the screen of the VM, connect via VNC with the password "66nhCBkk" to centos7base: vnc://10.150.1.35:5900<http://10.150.1.35:5900> ==> centos7base: Error starting VM: Retry limit exceeded ==> centos7base: Destroying virtual machine... Build 'centos7base' errored: Error starting VM: Retry limit exceeded ==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors: --> centos7base: Error starting VM: Retry limit exceeded ==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 10:57:57 AM UTC-6, Andrew Meyer wrote: Nm, got further on this. but still complaining about SSL verification. On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 10:51:31 AM UTC-6, Andrew Meyer wrote: Ok so I'm not understanding the syntax for the ovftool in the json file. Here is the error i'm getting: Template validation failed. Errors are shown below. Errors validating build ''. 1 error(s) occurred: * ovftool validation error: signal: killed; Accept SSL fingerprint (EF:5E:1D:73:3D:31:88:D0:B2:A7:8F:8B:F9:2A:FC:03:CB:A5:23:FC) for host 10.150.1.35 as source type. Fingerprint will be added to the known host file Write 'yes' or 'no' Here is the line in the json file "ovftool_options": "--noSSLVerify=yes", On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 10:35:01 AM UTC-6, Andrew Meyer wrote: nevermind I got it working. on to the next issue. TY! On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 9:51:22 AM UTC-6, Andrew Meyer wrote: Ok so I downloaded the ovftool bundle, but I'm still seeing this in the logs: 2019/01/22 09:46:48 Preparing build: 2019/01/22 09:46:48 Build '' prepare failure: 1 error(s) occurred: * ovftool validation error: fork/exec : no such file or directory; 2019/01/22 09:46:48 ui error: Template validation failed. Errors are shown below. 2019/01/22 09:46:48 ui error: Errors validating build ''. 1 error(s) occurred: * ovftool validation error: fork/exec : no such file or directory; 2019/01/22 09:46:48 [INFO] (telemetry) Finalizing. 2019/01/22 09:46:49 waiting for all plugin processes to complete... 2019/01/22 09:46:49 /usr/local/bin/packer_1.3.3: plugin process exited Do I need to install or download something else? On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 9:05:38 AM UTC-6, Rickard von Essen wrote: You can use variables for almost everything. And you need to have the ovftool installed and on the path for the vmware-iso builder. On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 16:00 Pietto Vasco <[email protected] wrote: I am trying to do the same thing. I have a packer test later today I'll update you On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 8:45 AM Andrew Meyer <[email protected] wrote: Also, Now I am getting this error: packer validate vmware/new-centos2.json Template validation failed. Errors are shown below. Errors validating build ''. 1 error(s) occurred: * ovftool validation error: fork/exec : no such file or directory; On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 8:21:50 AM UTC-6, Andrew Meyer wrote: Can I not use variables with this? Can I not have a separate variables.json file? Or should this all be monolithic? On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 8:00:35 AM UTC-6, Rickard von Essen wrote: Your type is still vsphere-iso. On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 14:47 Andrew Meyer <[email protected] wrote: So now I'm getting this: Template validation failed. Errors are shown below. Errors validating build 'vsphere-iso'. 6 errors occurred: * unknown configuration key: "keep_registered" * unknown configuration key: "remote_datastore" * unknown configuration key: "remote_host" * unknown configuration key: "remote_password" * unknown configuration key: "remote_type" * unknown configuration key: "remote_username" I made the following changes: { "builders": [ { "type": "vsphere-iso", "remote_type": "esx5", "remote_host": "{{user `esxi_host`}}", "remote_datastore": "{{user `esxi_datastore`}}", "remote_username": "{{user `esxi_username`}}", "remote_password": "{{user `esxi_password`}}", "keep_registered": true, "insecure_connection": "true", "username": "username", "password": "password", "host": "10.150.1.35", "vm_name": "centos7base", "convert_to_template": "false", "cpu": "1", "ram": "2048", "network": "v10101-prod", "network_adapter": "vmxnet3", "guest_os_type": "centos7_64Guest", "datastore": "datastore-nas", "disk_size": "60GB", "iso": "/vmfs/volumes/datastore02/ISO/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1810.iso", "iso_datastore": "datastore02" } On Tuesday, January 22, 2019 at 12:58:12 AM UTC-6, Rickard von Essen wrote: The vsphere-iso builder will only work against the vSphere API. If you want to build on a single ESXi server you should use vmware-iso (with remote_XX options set). On Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 07:17 Andrew Meyer <[email protected] wrote: I am having some issues getting packer to create VMs on my single ESX host. Everything I have found requires the vsphere appliance. I have enabled all the changes for this to work on the host itself. Here is my config { "builders": [ { "type": "vsphere-iso", "vcenter_server": "10.150.1.35", "insecure_connection": "true", "username": "root", "password": "", "host": "10.150.1.35", "vm_name": "centos7base", "convert_to_template": "false", "cpu": "1", "ram": "2048", "network": "v10101-prod", "network_adapter": "vmxnet3", "guest_os_type": "centos7_64Guest", "datastore": "datastore-nas", "disk_size": "60GB", "iso": "/vmfs/volumes/datastore02/ISO/CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-1810.iso", "iso_datastore": "datastore02" } ] } Here is the output I get when I try to run it: packer build new-centos1.json vsphere-iso output will be in this color. ==> vsphere-iso: Creating VM... Build 'vsphere-iso' errored: resource pool '/ha-datacenter/host//Resources/' not found ==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors: --> vsphere-iso: resource pool '/ha-datacenter/host//Resources/' not found ==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created. 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