Packer timeouts waiting for the WinRM to become available

[Tushar Sappal]

hey ,

I am trying building an Image via Packer for Azure .. I am trying to build a Windows Server 2012 R2 image and it seems the packer build fails even though I am setting `"winrm_timeout": "20m",` ( which is a huge number ) .. I am following some of the git bugs but none is able to provide me what might be causing the issue .. Can some one provide any context on this ?

A point to note that on Azure portal the VM is shown up and running ( from which the Image needs to be extracted ) .

 

I am following the docs listed at :- `https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/build-image-with-packer` (edited)

```==> azure-arm: Timeout waiting for WinRM.

==> azure-arm:

==> azure-arm: Cleanup requested, deleting resource group ...```

This is the error that I am getting ..

Providing the sample json file that I am using 

Enter code here..

{

  "builders": [{

    "type": "azure-arm",

    "client_id": "XXXXX",

    "client_secret": "XXXX",

    "resource_group_name": "testPacker",

    "storage_account": "testpackerstorage",

    "subscription_id": "XXXX",

    "tenant_id": "XXX",

    "object_id": "XXX",

    "capture_container_name": "images",

    "capture_name_prefix": "packer",

    "os_type": "Windows",

    "image_publisher": "MicrosoftWindowsServer",

    "image_offer": "WindowsServer",

    "image_sku": "2012-R2-Datacenter",

    "communicator": "winrm",

    "winrm_use_ssl": "true",

    "winrm_insecure": "true",

    "winrm_username": "packer",

    "winrm_timeout": "20m",

    "location": "EAST US2",

    "vm_size": "Standard_DS2_v2"

  }],

  "provisioners": [{

    "type": "powershell",

    "inline": [

      "if( Test-Path $Env:SystemRoot\\windows\\system32\\Sysprep\\unattend.xml ){ rm $Env:SystemRoot\\windows\\system32\\Sysprep\\unattend.xml -Force}",

      "& $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 } }"

    ]

  }]

}

[b...@tanners.org]

What version packer?

I had the same problem and upgrading to 1.1.3 resolved my problem.