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. Is this option even applicable to the VMware builders? If
>>>>> so, how does it work?
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