Strange filename vmware-vmx is producing

[andr...@gmail.com]

Hello,

This is how the vmx file name packer produced looks like:

The packer json file does NOT contain substring "timestamp". Is this a packer bug?

Note this is the packer template:

{

  "builders": [

        {

            "name":"windows-2012-sql2014express",

            "type":"vmware-vmx",

            "source_path":"stage\\packer-windows-2012-base.vmx",

            "output_directory": "vm-template-windows-2012-sql2014express",

            "headless":false,

            "boot_wait":"2m",

            "shutdown_command":"shutdown /s /t 10 /f /d p:4:1 /c \"Packer Shutdown\"",

            "vnc_port_min":5900,

            "vnc_port_max":5980,

            "communicator":"winrm",

            "winrm_username":"vagrant",

            "winrm_password":"vagrant",

            "winrm_port":"5985",

            "winrm_timeout":"30m",

            "skip_compaction":"true",            

            "vmx_data":{

                "RemoteDisplay.vnc.enabled":"true",

                "RemoteDisplay.vnc.port":"5900",

                "memsize":"2048",

                "numvcpus":"1",

                "scsi0.virtualDev":"lsisas1068"

            }

        }

  ],

  "provisioners": [

    {

      "type": "powershell",

      "valid_exit_codes": [ 0, 3010 ],

      "execute_command": "powershell.exe -NoProfile \"if (Test-Path variable:global:ProgressPreference){`$ProgressPreference='SilentlyContinue'}; & '{{.Path}}';exit `$LastExitCode\"; exit $LastExitCode",

      "scripts": [

        "./scripts/AddDisk.ps1",

        "./scripts/InstallSql2014.ps1"

      ]

    }

  ]

}

Cheers,

Andrew

[Rickard von Essen]

This is a default value from this line

https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/81522dced0b25084a824e79efda02483b12dc7cd/builder/vmware/vmx/config.go#L54

Unfortunately the template value is not interpolated. That is a bug. 

It would be great if you could report this at https://github.com/hashicorp/packer

/ Rickard 

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