If you get SDL errors when running with head you should fix your qemu installation (assuming this is a desktop running X windows etc).
https://packer.io/docs/builders/qemu.html#templates-inside-boot-command On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 22:50 Rory Toma <[email protected] wrote: > If I set headless to "true" packer exits with SDL errors. > I looked at docs... how to HTTPIP and such get set? > > Rickard von Essen wrote on 1/29/19 1:48 PM: > > Don't run headless if you are trouble shooting. Your boot command is > typed. The VM might not show the depending on when they happen. Your > ssh_timeout is way to short for installing a fresh from ISO, set it to > something like 30m to be safe. > > Your boot commad reference the host netinst which is probably not what you > want. It should be a template with HTTPIP and such, see the docs. > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 22:38 Rory Toma <[email protected] wrote: > >> >> >> Rickard von Essen wrote on 1/29/19 1:23 PM: >> >> Could you rerun the previous setup (with boot_command) with env var >> PACKER_LOG=1 and post the log here. There seems to be something wrong. >> >> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 22:10 rory toma <[email protected] wrote: >> >>> Nothing, it just sits on cdrom installer. I've worked around this for >>> now by modifying isolinux.cfg and re-generating the iso. I have dracut >>> issues now, but I can fix that. >>> >>> On Tuesday, January 29, 2019 at 1:01:16 PM UTC-8, Rickard von Essen >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> What happens when it types the boot command? >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019, 21:15 rory toma <[email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>>> So it seems to be completely ignoring my boot_command to tell it to >>>>> install from a kickstart file. >>>>> -- >>>>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines >>>>> - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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