Re: [packer] Packer Virtualbox-iso, is there a way to set the firmware to EFI?

[Rickard von Essen]

You can set this with vboxmanage modifyvm. 

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019, 16:21 Jake Shumate <jake...@gmail.com> wrote:

The .iso image I am building from uses EFI and virtualbox uses BIOS as default. When I go to run packer, the image I am using will not run because BIOS is not supported.

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[Rickard von Essen]

That looks correct to me, but I haven't tried it.

On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 8:48 PM Jake Shumate <jake...@gmail.com> wrote:

Would this be acceptable?

"vboxmanage":
  ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--firmware", "EFI" ],

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[Rickard von Essen]

Here is an example: https://github.com/timsutton/osx-vm-templates/blob/master/packer/template.json#L79