Hi Megan - Thanks for the response, that's what I was worried about.
Reading the Packer docs, it sounded like the user data provided to the packer "user_data_file" attribute shouldn't persist, but it seems like that goes out the window when Windows and Sysprep are thrown into the mix. I looked at clearing the user data as part of my provisioning using AWS for Powershell command Edit-EC2InstanceAttribute, but it appears that only works on a stopped instance. So unfortunately, it sounds like if you use "user_data_file" for initial WinRM configuration in Packer, you're out of luck if you want to use user data for child instances created from the custom AMI. Don't want to increase the scope of the question too much, but is there a better way to initiate WinRM connection than using "user_data_file"? As I mentioned, that seemed to be the only way I could get WinRM up and running and was recommended in most of the docs I found. On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:57 PM Megan Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > My windows VM is in vmware also, but I run it directly on my OSX machine > so I only have to deal with one layer of virtualization and don't have > specific advice for that. That said, I like the > https://github.com/StefanScherer/packer-windows packer templates a lot > for building windows images and they have vmware-iso builders. > > If you don't need to package the image into a Vagrant box though, you'll > want to remove Vagrant the post-processors. > > -- > 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/hashicorp/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/CAGPV1uqjP8ivipcVKaLKz1OWPvBsAfK7MzQZVgL5ptf%2BDgzGow%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CAGPV1uqjP8ivipcVKaLKz1OWPvBsAfK7MzQZVgL5ptf%2BDgzGow%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- ++Eric -- 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/hashicorp/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/CAPE%2BqMZY_jVgOtLDeU71tcVuQDqKAhca0HpnDAx6TwoV%2B007dQ%40mail.gmail.com.
