To be clear, I didn’t mean it as a criticism, and appreciate the plans to clean up the docs. I was thinking without considering the challenges of things being auto generated that cleaning up the docs could be a good starter task for external contributors.
-Jason On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 13:22 Megan Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > We are aware that the documentation is wrong here. Sorry :( The issue is > that the docs are autogenerated, so they're showing up even for builders > where specific options aren't relevant. We're working on fixing them so > that builders which don't use certain communicator features won't show them > as though they're available. > > On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 10:16 AM Rickard von Essen < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Actually this functionality has been extended a bit and it supports >> VirtualBox now at least. See >> https://packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-iso.html#ssh-key-pair-automation >> >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020, 13:39 Jason Beranek <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Rickard, >>> >>> Probably worth a documentation update to capture the >>> behavior/limitations. I looked at the code, since I thought this was >>> something that maybe used to work with the Virtualbox builders, and it >>> looks like that code even generates the key pairs that it probably never >>> uses. >>> >>> V/r, >>> >>> Jason A. Beranek >>> >>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 2:23 AM Rickard von Essen < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> It's not applicable. It's just for builders where ssh public keys are >>>> served by the API to instances to that will be added by cloud-init (or >>>> something similar) will automatically add them to a authorized_keys file. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Apr 2, 2020, 04:15 Lesley Kimmel <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I noticed that this SSH communicator option is available for several >>>>> builders (based on the Packer docs). Specifically, I am using the >>>>> vsphere-iso builder. I was playing with this option but it doesn't seem to >>>>> do anything. When I search about it, it is generally in the context of >>>>> Amazon builders. 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