vmware-iso: Failed to create a VM with "Timeout waiting for SSH."

[Suraphart Suwanmaitree]

Hi,

I have problem building an Ubuntu VM on a remote ESXi using Packer. The VM always failed to finish the configuration and getting terminated after "Timeout waiting for SSH.". I see "[DEBUG] Error getting SSH address: No interface on the VM has an IP address ready" message in the Packer debug log but the IP address has already been assigned to the VM as I can see from the "esxcli --formatter csv network vm port list -w <VM world ID>" output and it can be reached via ping. Here is my template https://gist.github.com/giiift/012404a732d81cbc95e2487cbfcdfea9.

~ # esxcli --formatter csv network vm port list -w 11088749

ActiveFilters,DVPortID,IPAddress,MACAddress,PortID,Portgroup,TeamUplink,UplinkPortID,vSwitch,

,,172.17.0.23,00:0c:29:6e:e9:ce,33554444,BPS Network,vmnic0,33554434,vSwitch0,

I tried both static IP and dynamic IP from DHCP but they all failed with the same error. The debug log is as attached.

Below is my environment:

• Packer v1.1.0
  
• VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Releasebuild-3116895
  

Does anyone has any idea how to fix my problem?

Regards.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello

lets skip packer for a second, since looks more a ubuntu question at this point

what your preseed does? use dhcp or fixed ip?

if use dhcp, there is dhcp server in the network being used ?

Alvaro

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[Suraphart Suwanmaitree]

Hi,

Here is the network configuration part in the preseed

# Network configuration

d-i netcfg/choose_interface select auto

d-i netcfg/disable_autoconfig boolean true

d-i netcfg/get_ipaddress string 172.17.0.23

d-i netcfg/get_netmask string 255.255.255.0

d-i netcfg/get_gateway string 172.17.0.1

d-i netcfg/get_nameservers string 172.17.0.1

d-i netcfg/confirm_static boolean true

d-i netcfg/get_hostname string unassigned-hostname

d-i netcfg/get_domain string unassigned-domain

I think the reason Packer keep terminating the VM because SSH timeout before it can finish creating the VM. So I randomly increased the "ssh_timeout" in the template to 10 minutes and it can built successfully.

Thanks.

On Tuesday, October 3, 2017 at 3:18:21 AM UTC+7, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:

hello

lets skip packer for a second, since looks more a ubuntu question at this point

what your preseed does? use dhcp or fixed ip?

if use dhcp, there is dhcp server in the network being used ?

Alvaro

On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:26 AM, Suraphart Suwanmaitree <surap...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I have problem building an Ubuntu VM on a remote ESXi using Packer. The VM always failed to finish the configuration and getting terminated after "Timeout waiting for SSH.". I see "[DEBUG] Error getting SSH address: No interface on the VM has an IP address ready" message in the Packer debug log but the IP address has already been assigned to the VM as I can see from the "esxcli --formatter csv network vm port list -w <VM world ID>" output and it can be reached via ping. Here is my template https://gist.github.com/giiift/012404a732d81cbc95e2487cbfcdfea9.

~ # esxcli --formatter csv network vm port list -w 11088749

ActiveFilters,DVPortID,IPAddress,MACAddress,PortID,Portgroup,TeamUplink,UplinkPortID,vSwitch,

,,172.17.0.23,00:0c:29:6e:e9:ce,33554444,BPS Network,vmnic0,33554434,vSwitch0,

I tried both static IP and dynamic IP from DHCP but they all failed with the same error. The debug log is as attached.

Below is my environment:

• Packer v1.1.0
  
• VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Releasebuild-3116895
  

Does anyone has any idea how to fix my problem?

Regards.

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