You can build targeting VMware Desktop (Workstation or Fusion) or VMware Server (vSphere or ESXi). To build for desktop you'll need VMware Workstation and to use the box with Vagrant you'll need the Vagrant VMware plugin. To build for vSphere you'll need an ESXi box with or without vSphere management.
On Monday, October 26, 2020 at 11:09:09 PM UTC-5 sp wrote: > Thanks > > I have minimum background knowledge of VMware. > > Will you let me know what VMware tool I need to use? > > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 5:22 PM dragon788 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Terraform is more of a deployment tool. >> >> You can use Packer to build VMs for desktop virtualization tools like >> Virtualbox or VMware Workstation or server virtualization like XenServer or >> VMware vSphere or cloud systems like AWS EC2 or Azure VMs. >> >> Within Packer you would use a configuration management tool like >> Saltstack or Chef or Ansible or Puppet (or Powershell DSC if you have >> existing configurations for Windows). >> >> One of the benefits of using Packer is to have repeatable and testable >> builds, but you can build a base image for VMware Player/Workstation and >> then use the VM protection tools to make an encrypted/protected VM that >> won't allow modifications of the base image but instead only saves >> snapshots with the changes and you can set a policy to have it revert back >> to the base image when shut down. >> >> On Sunday, October 25, 2020 at 1:01:25 PM UTC-5 sp wrote: >> >>> Thanks >>> Is that possible to build manually for testing? >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 12:45 PM Gabo Kete <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> HI >>>> >>>> Packer is ment to be used for Managing Images, VMs, AMI, etc.. If you >>>> want to truly explore Immutable Platform Builds. My advise is you look >>>> into >>>> Terraform in combination with Packer.. >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> On Friday, October 23, 2020 at 9:05:14 PM UTC+2 sp wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm new to packer and looking any advice how to start with immutable >>>>> vm build. >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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 a topic in the >>>> Google Groups "Packer" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/packer-tool/Fh2aJKptztc/unsubscribe. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >>>> [email protected]. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/7389e1b1-8377-4511-8ee9-a1f3c9b1bb0fn%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/7389e1b1-8377-4511-8ee9-a1f3c9b1bb0fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >>> Thanks & Regards, >>> >>> Sekhar.P >>> >> -- >> 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 a topic in the >> Google Groups "Packer" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/packer-tool/Fh2aJKptztc/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/241c5499-5f5c-481f-a4d6-8c71affc2067n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/241c5499-5f5c-481f-a4d6-8c71affc2067n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > Thanks & Regards, > > Sekhar.P > -- 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/76b85a0a-8d56-4fe9-8935-fd1cff3f7885n%40googlegroups.com.
