Can't create a packer build on Linux

[kav...@gmail.com]

I'm running on Linux with a licensed copy of VMware workstation 12 for linux and get the following when I try to build:

    Build 'cats-fs' errored: Cloning is not supported with VMware WS version 9. Please use VMware WS version 10, or greater.

I ran the following clone command and it seemed to work:

    vmrun -T ws clone build/centos72/centos72.vmx build/test -cloneName test full

I set the options to debug packer, and I get debug output, but it doesn't show me what VMware commands it is running.

Thanks for any help

[Rickard von Essen]

Try running with: PACKER_LOG=1 packer build template.json

That will give you all the commands packer run. If that doesn't help. Gist the log and send a follow up here with a link.

/ Rickard

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[kav...@gmail.com]

Thank you, Rickard

The requested gist is here: https://gist.github.com/dshields/c1850fbd807188943084d13a9fc5a67e

The build runs find under vmware fusion. I have run with debug. Even at debug level 10 I don't see what command is being run.

On Wednesday, August 17, 2016 at 11:09:47 PM UTC-5, Rickard von Essen wrote:

Try running with: PACKER_LOG=1 packer build template.json

That will give you all the commands packer run. If that doesn't help. Gist the log and send a follow up here with a link.

/ Rickard

On Aug 18, 2016 12:16 AM, <kav...@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm running on Linux with a licensed copy of VMware workstation 12 for linux and get the following when I try to build:

    Build 'cats-fs' errored: Cloning is not supported with VMware WS version 9. Please use VMware WS version 10, or greater.

I ran the following clone command and it seemed to work:

    vmrun -T ws clone build/centos72/centos72.vmx build/test -cloneName test full

I set the options to debug packer, and I get debug output, but it doesn't show me what VMware commands it is running.

Thanks for any help

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[Rickard von Essen]

What's the output of:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx -v

?

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[kav...@gmail.com]

I got:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx: error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So it looks like I'm going on a dependency hunt for vmware. 

Thank you

[kav...@gmail.com]

I installed a couple of packages and got vmware to get further:

   yum install libXinerama

   yum install libXinerama-devel

  yum install libXcursor

Then, I failed until I added "headless": true to my template.json

Now the headless vmrun command is failing:

# /usr/bin/vmrun -T ws start build/vmx/cats-fs.vmx nogui

Error: The operation was canceled

[kav...@gmail.com]

I still can't build my vmx. The system is timing out while waiting for ssh. I've logged into the box and found that it never gets an ip address. 

I've installed more X11 packages, but not sure that I needed to.

You cannot connect to VNC using OSX's vnc viewer. It doesn't work with password-less connections. I installed realvnc's viewer and was able to connect.

 

I was missing a kernel module that vmware needs:

  yum install kernel-devel

  yum install gcc

  vmware-modconfig --console --install-all

  yum groupinstall "X Window System"

  yum groupinstall "Fonts"

  yum groupinstall "Gnome Desktop"

Seems strange I have to install more dependencies and build kernel modules after I install vmware in order to get it to run.

[kav...@gmail.com]

So far none of the problems have been packer related. They've all been vmware and vmware gives horrible logs.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

the vm gets ip now ??

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[kav...@gmail.com]

Very strange thing. I had some entries in vmx_data:

        "ethernet0.present" : "TRUE",

        "ethernet0.startConnected" : "TRUE",

        "ethernet0.virtualdev" : "vmxnet3",

        "ethernet0.networkName" : "Network 1",

I had to reduce these to

        "ethernet0.virtualdev" : "vmxnet3",

and then my vm got an ip address. Everything is working now.

If I get some time, I'll do a clean build and post a summary of all the things I had to do to get vmware working correctly.

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