Generating OVA from img via Packer

[ksac...@gmail.com]

I have a mypacker.json file that takes my raw disk image with CentOS already on it and in provisioner runs my bash script and gives me a new raw image as output. I am trying to generate an OVA via packer. That is, read the raw image from disk, run my bash script under provisioner and then output an OVA. I am aware I can use qemu to convert raw image to OVA but can packer do the whole thing for me? When in my json file i say "format":"ova", packer says only qcow2 or raw are supported
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[ksac...@gmail.com]

Also, when I say type:vmware, I get the following error

Failed to initialize build 'vmware': builder type not found: vmware

[Megan Marsh]

I suspect the issue is that the "type" for a vmware build is either "vmware-iso" or "vmware-vmx" not "vmware"

[Rickard von Essen]

And regarding qemu builder output ova, it can't do that directly. It only supports raw and qcow2 disks, see the format option.

But you can use the shell-local post-processor to run a command on the artifact. 

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 18:44 Megan Marsh <megan....@gmail.com> wrote:

I suspect the issue is that the "type" for a vmware build is either "vmware-iso" or "vmware-vmx" not "vmware"

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