Good morning guys, I have seen that this feature was merged. Is it possible now to send keyboard commands to the instance?
Kind regards On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 12:03 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > Problem with cloudstack and packer is that packer is not able to send > keyboard commands to the instance at the moment. There is no boot_command > functionality within the cloudstack packer plugin. > After starting packer build you need to go to the vm console and do > install steps manually. > We are working right now to implement this feature to the plugin, so > packer is able to perform a fully automated template creation. > > First step is to implement new api createConsoleEndpoint to cloudstack-go > package. Pull request is here: > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-go/pull/78 > > After that we should be able to use this to send keyboard commands to the > instance. > > Regards, > Swen > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Kiran Chavala <[email protected]> > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 7. März 2024 11:42 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: packer cloudstack > > Hi Francisco > > Please find the sample template I had created for cloudstack > > > > https://developer.hashicorp.com/packer/integrations/hashicorp/cloudstack/latest/components/builder/cloudstack#basic-example > > > https://github.com/kiranchavala/cloudstack-marketplace-templates > > > https://github.com/kiranchavala/cloudstack-marketplace-templates/blob/main/docker-22-04.pkr.hcl > > > > Other useful links > https://github.com/MissionCriticalCloud/bubble-templates-packer > https://github.com/PCextreme/packer-templates > > Regards > Kiran > > From: Francisco Arencibia Quesada <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, 7 March 2024 at 4:03 PM > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: packer cloudstack > Good morning guys, > > I'm using packer, and I'm having some issues, I can't find many examples > online, at least for cloudstack. Do you guys have any template working to > point me in the right direction? My file complains about the boot_command > option: > > source "cloudstack" "example" { > api_url = "http://X.X.X.X:8080/client/api"; > api_key = "XXXXXXX" > secret_key = "XXXXXXX" > disk_offering = "Standard Custom" > disk_size = "20" > hypervisor = "XenServer" > network = "test-packer" > service_offering = "4-8" > source_iso = "Ubuntu 22.04.1 live server amd64" > zone = "EU-MAD1" > ssh_username = "user" > ssh_password = "packer" > template_name = "Ubuntu22.04.1-XCP-Packer" > template_display_text = "ubuntu-22.04.1-XCP-Packer" > template_featured = true > template_password_enabled = true > template_scalable = true > template_os = "Other PV (64-bit)" > http_directory = "http" > http_port_min = 8000 > http_port_max = 8099 > boot_command = [ > "<esc><esc><enter><wait>", > "linux /install/vmlinuz noapic ", > "preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg ", > "debian-installer=en_US auto locale=en_US kbd-chooser/method=us ", > "hostname={{ user `Name` }} ", "fb=false debconf/frontend=noninteractive ", > "keyboard-configuration/modelcode=SKIP keyboard-configuration/layout=USA ", > "keyboard-configuration/variant=USA console-setup/ask_detect=false ", > "initrd=/install/initrd.gz -- <enter>" > ] > > } > > build { > sources = ["source.cloudstack.example"] > > } > > > > pressed.cfg > > ### set locales > d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US.UTF-8 d-i > keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap select us > > ### Network configuration > d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto > d-i netcfg/get_hostname string ubuntu > d-i netcfg/get_domain string localdomain > > ### Ubuntu mirrors > d-i mirror/country string manual > d-i mirror/http/hostname string archive.ubuntu.com d-i > mirror/http/directory string /ubuntu d-i mirror/http/proxy string > > ### credentials > d-i passwd/user-fullname string Ubuntu User d-i passwd/username string > ubuntu d-i passwd/user-password password ubuntu d-i > passwd/user-password-again password ubuntu d-i > user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true d-i user-setup/encrypt-home > boolean false > > ### Timezone configuration > d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true > d-i time/zone string UTC > > ### Disk partitioning > d-i partman-auto/method string regular > d-i partman-auto/choose_recipe select atomic > > d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true d-i > partman/choose_partition select finish d-i partman/confirm boolean true d-i > partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true > > ### base system > d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-server > > ### Automatic updates > d-i pkgsel/update-policy select none > > ### Software selection > tasksel tasksel/first multiselect standard d-i pkgsel/include string > openssh-server > > ### GRUB install > d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true d-i > grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true > > ### Finish installation > d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note > > > > > Thank you all in advance > Regards > > -- > *Francisco Arencibia Quesada.* > *DevOps Engineer* > > > > > > -- *Francisco Arencibia Quesada.* *DevOps Engineer*
