Thanks again, Megan. I didn't have much success so far trying to clear/update user data as part of provisioning but will keep playing around with it.
On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 1:46 PM Megan Marsh <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately, user_data_file is basically the only way to get that > initial configuration set up. I wonder if before the sysprep you could > overwrite that file so the values in it are different. > > On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:31 PM Eric Richardson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> 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. 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