Hi Gabo, yes I can login to ESXi using the ssh_password and ssh_username
values. My password has an @ sign, not sure if it can be a problem. Checking

On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:00 PM Gabo Kete <[email protected]> wrote:

> looks like you access is being rejected when it tries to ssh into the
> vmware... can you look into your json file and find the *ssh_username *and*
> ssh_password  entries *and try to logging into your vmware with those
> values and check if it works
>
> On Tuesday, February 2, 2021 at 8:51:13 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone, I am building an image and during the build I have the
>> following error below. Any clue of what it can be ?
>>
>> 2021/02/02 16:44:57 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] Opening new
>> ssh session
>> 2021/02/02 16:44:57 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] starting
>> remote command: vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 221
>> 2021/02/02 16:44:58 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [ERROR] Remote
>> command exited with '1': vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on 221
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:17 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] Opening new
>> ssh session
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:17 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] starting
>> remote command: vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate 221
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:18 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] Opening new
>> ssh session
>> ==> vmware-iso: Error starting VM: Retry limit exceeded
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:18 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] starting
>> remote command: vim-cmd vmsvc/power.getstate 221
>> ==> vmware-iso: Destroying virtual machine...
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:18 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] Opening new
>> ssh session
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:18 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] starting
>> remote command: vim-cmd vmsvc/destroy 221
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:19 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] Opening new
>> ssh session
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:19 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] starting
>> remote command: test ! -e "/vmfs/volumes/DataStorage/Appliance2_dev"
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:19 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] Opening new
>> ssh session
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:19 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [DEBUG] starting
>> remote command: test -e "/vmfs/volumes/DataStorage/Appliance2_dev"
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:19 packer-builder-vmware-iso plugin: [ERROR] Remote
>> command exited with '1': test -e "/vmfs/volumes/DataStorage/Appliance2_dev"
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:19 [INFO] (telemetry) ending vmware-iso
>> ==> Wait completed after 3 minutes 44 seconds
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:19 machine readable: error-count []string{"1"}
>> ==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:19 machine readable: vmware-iso,error []string{"Error
>> starting VM: Retry limit exceeded"}
>> ==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
>> 2021/02/02 16:45:19 [INFO] (telemetry) Finalizing.
>> Build 'vmware-iso' errored after 3 minutes 44 seconds: Error starting VM:
>> Retry limit exceeded
>>
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