VMWare-ISO and ESX network not connecting.

[PaulG]

Using packer 1.3.3, I seem not to be able to get the network to connect. I have to go into the Vsphere console and select the network and click connect. I am at a loss.

  "vmx_data": {

"ethernet0.virtualDev" : "vmxnet3",

"ethernet0.dvs.switchId": "50 3c dd 68 6a 5d a4 ec-07 2e 83 e6 a1 81 18 86",

"ethernet0.pciSlotNumber":"192",

"ethernet0.startConnected": "TRUE",

"ethernet0.present": "TRUE",

"ethernet0.networkName":"VLAN1216",

"ethernet0.uptCompatibility": "TRUE",

"ethernet0.addressType": "vpx",

"ethernet0.uptCompatibility": "TRUE",

"virtualhw.productcompatibility" : "esx",

"virtualhw.version" : "13",

"cpuid.coresPerSocket": "2",

"memsize": "2048",

"scsi0.virtualDev": "pvscsi",

"numvcpus": "2"

},

I really don't know what else to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Paul

[PaulG]

I really am stumped. When look at the "Networks" in VSphere client, there are none connected.  If I manually connect, packer will continue, but the template will not boot with network either.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

packer talk to esxi

esxi only have normal networks

distributed groups etc exists on vcenter, not on esxi

so you can :

- have a provisioning network, so packer can build

- have a iso and make packer build offline using vmware-iso

- try packer vcenter plugin

https://github.com/jetbrains-infra/packer-builder-vsphere

alvaro

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