There is an igw attached to the VPC, and adding associate_public_ip_address does not help. It was already producing a public IP, that's how I was able to RDP to it, but the packer log shows it trying to connect to the internal IP...
Thanks, Jon On Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 5:01:15 PM UTC-4, Rickard von Essen wrote: > > Most likely you are launching the instans in a private network (I.e > instances don't get a public IP). > > Try setting associate_public_ip_address to true. That will work if you > have an igw correctly setup for that subnet work. > > > https://packer.io/docs/builders/amazon-ebs.html#associate_public_ip_address > > https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_Internet_Gateway.html > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019, 22:52 Jon A. <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> I'm trying to use the "A Windows Example" on the Packer build-image >> tutorial. >> https://www.packer.io/intro/getting-started/build-image.html >> >> The ONLY thing I've changed to get it partially working, is setting >> "vpc_id" and "subnet_id" in the builders section because we do not have a >> default VPC. I also have tried this with Win 2012 base and Win 2016 base. >> >> The machine spins up, but freezes at >> >> ==> amazon-ebs: Waiting for WinRM to become available... >> >> >> I enabled RDP in the temporary packer security group and can connect to >> the machine. I verified that the bootstrap_win is at least partially >> running by putting in a powershell command to create a file on the new >> machine and it did so. I ran Test-WSMan on the machine and I don't get any >> errors. >> >> I enabled debug, and the log is just filled with: >> >> 2019/06/20 16:13:02 packer.exe: 2019/06/20 16:13:02 [INFO] Attempting >> WinRM connection... >> 2019/06/20 16:13:02 packer.exe: 2019/06/20 16:13:02 [DEBUG] connecting to >> remote shell using WinRM >> 2019/06/20 16:13:02 packer.exe: 2019/06/20 16:13:02 [ERROR] connection >> error: unknown error Post http://ip-10-0-0-37.ec2.internal:5985/wsman: >> dial tcp: lookup ip-10-0-0-37.ec2.internal: no such host >> 2019/06/20 16:13:02 packer.exe: 2019/06/20 16:13:02 [ERROR] WinRM >> connection err: unknown error Post >> http://ip-10-0-0-37.ec2.internal:5985/wsman: dial tcp: lookup >> ip-10-0-0-37.ec2.internal: no such host >> >> >> Is the problem that it is trying to use the internal IP vs. external? Is >> there a way to force external? The newly created machine is not on any >> domain. I also tried manually creating a different machine on the same VPC, >> installed Packer, and went through these same steps with the same result. >> >> I've seen others with the same or similar behavior, but the >> cause/solution seems different. >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Jon >> >> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/f5da2ce0-8e4b-4cd0-97f8-9b6eb75aba1c%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/f5da2ce0-8e4b-4cd0-97f8-9b6eb75aba1c%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- 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/f2aac118-1b70-4251-bfe7-91e4abf6c218%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
