Is anyone familiar with initial booting issues in Virtual Box/ESXi hosts
with Ubuntu 18.04 initiated from Packer? We are migrating from 14.04/16.04
cloud images which have always worked fine end to end. Using qemu version
4.0.0, Packer 1.4.2, on Ubuntu 16.04. The image work sequence is: .img read
into packer, booted and exported to qcow2, then converted to vmdk with
"qemu-img convert" (qemu-img convert -f qcow2 -O vmdk -o
subformat=streamOptimized
packer_img.qcow2 packer_img.vmdk).
Here's a snippet of the json packer file:
"builders": [{
"type": "qemu",
"iso_url": "ubuntu-18.04.2-server-cloudimg-amd64.img",
"iso_checksum": "
aa5bbaf6a3ec34001dc43b10de62d304bb6e956b262e85f554b2fed0e1250714",
"iso_checksum_type": "sha256",
"disk_image": true,
"output_directory": "{{user `output_directory`}}",
"disk_size": 10000,
"format": "qcow2",
"disk_compression": false,
"headless": true,
"accelerator": "kvm",
"ssh_username": "{{user `username`}}",
"ssh_password": "{{user `username`}}",
"ssh_port": 22,
"ssh_wait_timeout": "{{user `ssh_timeout`}}",
"vm_name": "{{user `image_name`}}",
"use_default_display": true,
"shutdown_command": "sudo shutdown -h now",
"qemuargs": [
["-m", "4096M"],
["-smp", "4"],
["-cdrom", "cloud.img"],
["-smbios", "type=1,serial=ds=nocloud"],
["-serial", "mon:stdio"]
]
}],
"provisioners": [{
"type": "shell",
"inline": [
"while [ ! -f /var/lib/cloud/instance/boot-finished ]; do echo
'Waiting for cloud-init...'; sleep 1; done",
"ssh-keyscan github.com >> /home/{{user `username`}}/.ssh/known_hosts"
]
},
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