Hi!
After upgrading from Packet 1.4.3 to 1.5.1, the boot_command string is
sent too late when building VMWare OVF images on an ESXi 6.7 server. The
boot_command now ends up being typed in the installer instead of the
boot loader. I have set "boot_wait" to "0s" in the configuration, but I
now see a
==> vmware-iso: Waiting 10s for boot...
line in the packer output during build, which was not there before. I
couldn't find anything in the release notes that mention changes to the
boot_wait handling.
This is the "builders" part of the configuration (with sensitive parts
redacted):
"builders": [
{
"type": "vmware-iso",
"remote_type": "esx5",
"remote_host": "10.0.31.140",
"remote_username": "redacted",
"remote_password": "redacted",
"remote_datastore": "redacted",
"remote_cache_datastore": "redacted",
"remote_cache_directory": "packer-iso",
"vnc_disable_password": true,
"format": "ova",
"vm_name": "redacted",
"vmdk_name": "redacted",
"iso_url": "redacted.iso",
"iso_checksum_type": "none",
"ssh_username": "root",
"ssh_password": "redacted",
"ssh_wait_timeout": "30m",
"shutdown_command": "shutdown -P now",
"disk_size": "491520",
"disk_type_id": "thin",
"guest_os_type": "rhel7-64",
"vmx_data": {
"numvcpus": "8",
"memsize": "16384",
"ethernet0.present": "true",
"ethernet0.networkName": "VM Network",
"ethernet0.virtualDev": "vmxnet3",
"ethernet1.present": "true",
"ethernet1.networkName": "Host-Only Network",
"ethernet1.virtualDev": "vmxnet3",
"vmxnet.noOprom": "true",
"vmxnet2.noOprom": "true"
},
"http_directory": "kickstart",
"boot_wait": "0s",
"boot_command": [
"<esc><esc><wait><esc><esc><wait><esc><esc><wait><esc><esc><wait><esc><esc><wait><esc><esc><wait>",
"/isolinux/vmlinuz ",
"inst.ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/redacted.cfg ",
"initrd=initrd.img ",
"inst.stage2=hd:LABEL=redacted ",
"biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0 ",
"quiet",
"<enter>"
]
}
],
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