No, this was only the first step to this goal.

Regards,
Swen

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Von: Francisco Arencibia Quesada <[email protected]> 
Gesendet: Freitag, 15. März 2024 09:42
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: packer cloudstack

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/cloudsta
> ck/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*


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