Remote desktop into Azure Packer VM when build fails

[Wouter de Kort]

Hi Team,

I'm looking into how to Remote Desktop into the temporary VM that Packer uses when building my image. I'm using Azure.

I see that the temporary resource group is created and that it contains the VM. I've tried things like: 

$env:PACKER_LOG=1

$env:PACKER_LOG_PATH="packerlog.txt"

and running packer build with -on-error=abort.

The documentation states:

As of Packer 0.8.1 the default WinRM communicator will emit the password for a Remote Desktop Connection into your instance. This happens following the several minute pause as the instance is booted. Note a .pem key is still created for securely transmitting the password. Packer automatically decrypts the password for you in debug mode.

I have no idea what this means. Which password is emitted? Where can I view this password? Can I RDP into the Packer VM to debug it?

Thanks!
Wouter

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello

try with -on-error=ask  

you can use the normal ways to get creds info, how do you do it when you build a vm manually?

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Alvaro

[Wouter de Kort]

Hi Alvaro,

when I normally create a VM through ARM, the portal or with PowerShell commands I pass in the credentials. But when using packer build, packer generates a VM for me and I don't see anywhere to pass in credentials. The only credentials I can store in the config file are for the winrm user. What I'm looking for are credentials that I can use to remote desktop into the temporary Packer VM.

Thanks,
Wouter