Is it possible to set disk.enableUUID in the vmx_data when building a vmware-iso?

[Steven Stratis]

I'm building out VMware iso images successfully but need to be able to set a certain flag in the template, which is disk.enableUUID=1

Is it possible to do this in Packer? Maybe using something in the vmx_data?  This flag is needed for disk identification from the vSphere Cloud Provider in Kubernetes.

I'm currently able to set it manually from the command line using govc... 

govc vm.change -vm Ubuntu1804Template -c 4 -m 4096 -e="disk.enableUUID=1"

It would be great to be able to do this while building it up in Packer though.

Thanks for any help!

[Rickard von Essen]

The simplest way to learn about this is just to issue your manual command and after that inspect the VMX file and see if it's there. If it is you can add the same thing to vmx_post. 

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[Pandit Mali]

Hi Rickard,

I have .ps1(GPO's, BGInfo, TLS scripts) files with me which is included our company standard policy's, by applying the .ps1 files how do I need to build the Golden image using Packer .

I have created image in Azure with below Json file but I dont know how to apply the .ps1 files.

 

{

"builders": [{ "type": "azure-arm", "client_id": "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx", "client_secret": "ppppppp-pppp-pppp-pppp-ppppppppppp", "tenant_id": "zzzzzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzzzzzzzzzz", "subscription_id": "yyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyyyyyyyyy", "managed_image_resource_group_name": "myPackerGroup", "managed_image_name": "myPackerImage", "os_type": "Windows", "image_publisher": "MicrosoftWindowsServer", "image_offer": "WindowsServer", "image_sku": "2016-Datacenter", "communicator": "winrm", "winrm_use_ssl": true, "winrm_insecure": true, "winrm_timeout": "3m", "winrm_username": "packer", "azure_tags": { "dept": "Engineering", "task": "Image deployment" }, "location": "East US", "vm_size": "Standard_DS2_v2" }], "provisioners": [{ "type": "powershell", "inline": [ "Add-WindowsFeature Web-Server", "& $env:SystemRoot\\System32\\Sysprep\\Sysprep.exe /oobe /generalize /quiet /quit", "while($true) { $imageState = Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\Setup\\State | Select ImageState; if($imageState.ImageState -ne 'IMAGE_STATE_GENERALIZE_RESEAL_TO_OOBE') { Write-Output $imageState.ImageState; Start-Sleep -s 10 } else { break } }" ] }] }

I am unable give path for .ps1 files which is available with me, the below highlighted place, Please help me how to proceed further.  

Thanks and Regards,

Pandit Mali

Ph: +91 9844202299

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Pandit Mali

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