that's progress.. I would recommend first run the build as follows 

*packer build -on-error=ask* * build_file.json*

if you do not find anything "abnormal" , then run packer with *debug mode 
ON *
On Monday, February 8, 2021 at 2:52:36 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote:

> ESXi connection is right, only issue is packer connecting to the guest VM. 
> Checked here and my vm it getting an ipv4, even  when I mannually created 
> it. As soon I solve this, I think thr build will run without an issue.
>
> Em sexta-feira, 5 de fevereiro de 2021 às 09:50:22 UTC-3, Marc Pires 
> escreveu:
>
>> Thanks, I will take a look
>>
>> Em quinta-feira, 4 de fevereiro de 2021 às 15:57:54 UTC-3, 
>> [email protected] escreveu:
>>
>>> I see you have 2 mote access 
>>>
>>> 1. to connect to the ESXi 
>>> 2. To connect to the VM once created
>>>
>>> Seems your ESXi access is sorted, I did a bit of google and noticed the 
>>> error you are getting, it is likely that is because of a corrupted VM 
>>> Definition
>>>
>>> So would recommend you to look first into the definition of your 
>>> vmx_data,   In regards this,  I did create one a long time ago, you can use 
>>> that as a baseline, if helps
>>>
>>> https://github.com/macgahe/packer/blob/master/Vm-Template.vmx
>>>
>>> But to avoid getting into too much trouble.. will start with a working 
>>> Packer JSON file . CHEF in their github repo have some working templates 
>>> you may want to use as a baseline
>>>
>>> https://github.com/chef/bento/tree/master/packer_templates
>>>
>>> On Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 2:30:02 PM UTC+1 [email protected] 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> But as the VM gets its from DHCP, I will try to set a static ip address 
>>>> for it. Just need to check if I can do it via vmx_data and the correct 
>>>> property to use. (ESXi novice here)
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 8:18 AM Marc Pires <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Checked and  packer is connecting to the ESXi not be VM I am creating, 
>>>>> because I have two shell provisioners one  to copy a config file and the 
>>>>> second to set the OS packages. And the config file was copied to the ESXi 
>>>>> host not the VM.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 7:42 AM Marc Pires <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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