Newbie - not converting to a template and suck on waiting for ip
Steve Schofield
Rickard von Essen
I'm new to packer and vsphere-iso provider. I've been able provision a centos7 build where it does an unattended install va kickstart (vsphere 6.7). It fails on finding open-vm-tools. Could this be the reason? After the install, the server boots back to a command prompt instead of powering off, converting to a template. I can ssh to the server and login as root. (yeah!) I'd prefer it turn off and convert to a template. I see on the packer site, there is a convert_to_template property. I tried putting in post-processors, no luck. I sense I'm close to having this work, but stuck on Waiting for IP.Any tips / tricks are appreciated. I can post the ks.cfg and other files if necessary. Newer to this community so not sure all what to post for assistance. Thanks for your patience.
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Steve Schofield
Made some progress and thanks for your patience. I started a few days ago and my knowledge of linux / packer is growing leaps and bounds. For testing, I manually logged into the VM, run yum install open-vm-tools and Packer finishes successfully, converts itself into a template. This points to me having the provider can retrieve the ip information. Here is what I’ve included.
· Ks-log inside VM (error can’t resolve the mirror list) – does resolve after I log into VM
· Packer debug log
· The JSON file (I think that is what you meant by template)
· Kickstart file
===============
KS log inside VM
===============
+ yum-config-manager --add-repo http://centos.mirror.org
/tmp/ks-script-LpgGJe: line 4: yum-config-manager: command not found
+ echo 'Installing VM Tools...'
Installing VM Tools...
+ sudo yum -y install open-vm-tools
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Determining fastest mirrors
One of the configured repositories failed (Unknown),
and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only
safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:
1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.
2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working
upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer
distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the
packages for the previous distribution release still work).
3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled
yum --disablerepo=<repoid> ...
4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won't use it by default. Yum
will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it
again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:
yum-config-manager --disable <repoid>
or
subscription-manager repos --disable=<repoid>
5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.
Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,
so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much
slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice
compromise:
yum-config-manager --save --setopt=<repoid>.skip_if_unavailable=true
Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: base/7/x86_64
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=7&arch=x86_64&repo=os&infra=stock error was
14: curl#6 - "Could not resolve host: mirrorlist.centos.org; Unknown error"
+ sudo systemctl enable vmtoolsd
Operation failed: No such file or directory
+ sudo systemctl start vmtoolsd
Running in chroot, ignoring request.
===============
Packer Log
===============
2018/08/24 05:36:43 [INFO] Packer version: 1.2.2
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Packer Target OS/Arch: linux amd64
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Built with Go Version: go1.10
2018/08/24 05:36:43 [DEBUG] Discovered plugin: vsphere-iso = /apps/packer/packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux
2018/08/24 05:36:43 [DEBUG] Discovered plugin: vsphere = /apps/packer/packer-builder-vsphere.linux
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Detected home directory from env var: /root
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for cloudstack
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for docker
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for file
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for hyperv-vmcx
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for oneandone
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for azure-arm
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for null
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for lxc
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for amazon-ebssurrogate
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for oracle-classic
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for scaleway
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for virtualbox-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for virtualbox-ovf
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for vmware-vmx
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for hyperv-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for amazon-ebs
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for digitalocean
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for googlecompute
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for openstack
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for qemu
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for triton
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for amazon-chroot
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for lxd
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for ncloud
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for oracle-oci
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for parallels-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for amazon-instance
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for amazon-ebsvolume
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for parallels-pvm
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for vmware-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for alicloud-ecs
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for profitbricks
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for chef-solo
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for file
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for puppet-server
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for salt-masterless
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for shell
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for ansible-local
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for powershell
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for converge
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for chef-client
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for puppet-masterless
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for ansible
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for windows-restart
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for windows-shell
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for shell-local
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for atlas
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for checksum
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for docker-push
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for vsphere-template
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for amazon-import
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for artifice
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for googlecompute-export
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for vagrant
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for vsphere
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for alicloud-import
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for compress
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for docker-save
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for manifest
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for shell-local
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for docker-import
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for docker-tag
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Using internal plugin for vagrant-cloud
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Detected home directory from env var: /root
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Attempting to open config file: /root/.packerconfig
2018/08/24 05:36:43 [WARN] Config file doesn't exist: /root/.packerconfig
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Packer config: &{DisableCheckpoint:false DisableCheckpointSignature:false PluginMinPort:10000 PluginMaxPort:25000 Builders:map[oneandone:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-oneandone profitbricks:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-profitbricks hyperv-vmcx:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-hyperv-vmcx oracle-classic:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-oracle-classic virtualbox-iso:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-virtualbox-iso oracle-oci:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-oracle-oci parallels-pvm:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-parallels-pvm amazon-ebsvolume:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-ebsvolume alicloud-ecs:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-alicloud-ecs vmware-vmx:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-vmware-vmx hyperv-iso:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-hyperv-iso openstack:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-openstack triton:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-triton amazon-chroot:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-chroot ncloud:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-ncloud vsphere-iso:/apps/packer/packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux cloudstack:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-cloudstack parallels-iso:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-parallels-iso vsphere:/apps/packer/packer-builder-vsphere.linux file:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-file virtualbox-ovf:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-virtualbox-ovf digitalocean:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-digitalocean googlecompute:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-googlecompute qemu:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-qemu azure-arm:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-azure-arm amazon-ebssurrogate:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-ebssurrogate lxd:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-lxd amazon-instance:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-instance scaleway:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-scaleway amazon-ebs:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-amazon-ebs docker:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-docker null:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-null lxc:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-lxc vmware-iso:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-builder-vmware-iso] PostProcessors:map[atlas:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-atlas checksum:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-checksum vsphere-template:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-vsphere-template docker-save:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-docker-save docker-push:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-docker-push artifice:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-artifice googlecompute-export:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-googlecompute-export alicloud-import:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-alicloud-import manifest:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-manifest docker-import:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-docker-import amazon-import:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-amazon-import vagrant:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-vagrant shell-local:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-shell-local docker-tag:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-docker-tag vagrant-cloud:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-vagrant-cloud vsphere:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-vsphere compress:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-post-processor-compress] Provisioners:map[file:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-file shell:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-shell puppet-masterless:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-puppet-masterless chef-solo:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-chef-solo converge:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-converge salt-masterless:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-salt-masterless chef-client:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-chef-client ansible:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-ansible windows-restart:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-windows-restart ansible-local:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-ansible-local powershell:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-powershell windows-shell:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-windows-shell shell-local:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-shell-local puppet-server:/apps/packer/packer-PACKERSPACE-plugin-PACKERSPACE-packer-provisioner-puppet-server]}
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Detected home directory from env var: /root
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Setting cache directory: /tmp/packer_cache
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Detected home directory from env var: /root
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Loading builder: vsphere-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Creating plugin client for path: /apps/packer/packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Starting plugin: /apps/packer/packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux []string{"/apps/packer/packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux"}
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Waiting for RPC address for: /apps/packer/packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Plugin minimum port: 10000
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Plugin maximum port: 25000
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Plugin address: unix /tmp/packer-plugin040179003
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Waiting for connection...
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Serving a plugin connection...
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Loading provisioner: shell
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Plugin could not be found. Checking same directory as executable.
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Current exe path: /apps/packer/packer
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Creating plugin client for path: /apps/packer/packer
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Starting plugin: /apps/packer/packer []string{"/apps/packer/packer", "plugin", "packer-provisioner-shell"}
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Waiting for RPC address for: /apps/packer/packer
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 [INFO] Packer version: 1.2.2
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Packer Target OS/Arch: linux amd64
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Built with Go Version: go1.10
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Detected home directory from env var: /root
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Attempting to open config file: /root/.packerconfig
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 [WARN] Config file doesn't exist: /root/.packerconfig
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Packer config: &{DisableCheckpoint:false DisableCheckpointSignature:false PluginMinPort:10000 PluginMaxPort:25000 Builders:map[] PostProcessors:map[] Provisioners:map[]}
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Detected home directory from env var: /root
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Setting cache directory: /tmp/packer_cache
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 args: []string{"packer-provisioner-shell"}
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Plugin minimum port: 10000
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Plugin maximum port: 25000
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Detected home directory from env var: /root
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Plugin address: unix /tmp/packer-plugin133455204
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Waiting for connection...
2018/08/24 05:36:43 packer: 2018/08/24 05:36:43 Serving a plugin connection...
2018/08/24 05:36:43 ui: Debug mode enabled. Builds will not be parallelized.
2018/08/24 05:36:43 ui: [1;32mvsphere-iso output will be in this color.[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:43 ui:
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Build debug mode: true
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Force build: false
2018/08/24 05:36:43 On error:
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Preparing build: vsphere-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Debug enabled, so waiting for build to finish: vsphere-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Starting build run: vsphere-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 Running builder: vsphere-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 [INFO] (telemetry) Starting builder vsphere-iso
2018/08/24 05:36:43 ui: ask: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Pausing after run of step 'StepConnect'. Press enter to continue.[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:45 ui: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Creating VM...[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:48 ui: ask: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Pausing after run of step 'StepCreateVM'. Press enter to continue.[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:49 ui: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Customizing hardware...[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:49 ui: ask: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Pausing after run of step 'StepConfigureHardware'. Press enter to continue.[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:50 ui: ask: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Pausing after run of step 'StepConfigParams'. Press enter to continue.[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:50 ui: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Adding CD-ROM drives...[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:51 ui: ask: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Pausing after run of step 'StepAddCDRom'. Press enter to continue.[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:52 packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux: 2018/08/24 05:36:52 No floppy files specified. Floppy disk will not be made.
2018/08/24 05:36:52 ui: ask: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Pausing after run of step 'StepCreateFloppy'. Press enter to continue.[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:52 ui: ask: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Pausing after run of step 'StepAddFloppy'. Press enter to continue.[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:53 ui: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Set boot order...[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:53 ui: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Power on VM...[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:59 ui: ask: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Pausing after run of step 'StepRun'. Press enter to continue.[0m
2018/08/24 05:36:59 ui: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Waiting 15s for boot...[0m
2018/08/24 05:37:14 ui: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Typing boot command...[0m
2018/08/24 05:37:14 packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux: 2018/08/24 05:37:14 Special code '<tab>' found, replacing with: CodeTab
2018/08/24 05:37:17 packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux: 2018/08/24 05:37:17 Special code '<enter>' found, replacing with: CodeReturnEnter
2018/08/24 05:37:17 packer-builder-vsphere-iso.linux: 2018/08/24 05:37:17 Waiting 1 second
2018/08/24 05:37:18 ui: ask: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Pausing after run of step 'StepBootCommand'. Press enter to continue.[0m
2018/08/24 05:37:19 ui: [1;32m==> vsphere-iso: Waiting for IP...[0m
===============
JSON file
===============
{
"builders": [
{
"type": "vsphere-iso",
"vcenter_server": "vc1.ss.local",
"username": "admini...@vsphere.local",
"password": "prayerworks",
"insecure_connection": "true",
"vm_name": "centos-7-{{ timestamp }}",
"cluster": "Cluster",
"datastore": "Datastore1",
"network": "VM Network1",
"boot_wait": "15s",
"boot_order": "disk,cdrom",
"guest_os_type": "rhel7_64Guest",
"convert_to_template": "true",
"folder": "Templates",
"ssh_username": "root",
"ssh_password": "prayerworks",
"CPUs": 2,
"CPU_limit": -1,
"RAM": 4096,
"RAM_reserve_all": false,
"disk_controller_type": "pvscsi",
"disk_size": 51200,
"network_card": "vmxnet3",
"iso_paths": [
"Datastore1] ISO/boot3.iso"
],
"boot_command": [
"<tab> ks=cdrom:/ks.cfg <enter><wait>"
]
}
],
"provisioners": [
{
"type": "shell",
"inline": ["ls /"]
}
]
}
================
Kickstart file
# Set repo to mirror.centos.org
repo --name="CentOS" --baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ --cost=100
repo --name="Updates" --baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ --cost=100
# Required settings
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
rootpw vagrant
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone UTC
# Optional settings
install
cdrom
user --name=root --plaintext --password prayerworks
rootpw " prayerworks"
unsupported_hardware
network --device eth0 --bootproto=dhcp
firewall --disabled
selinux --disabled
# Disk partitioning information
bootloader --location=mbr --append="no_timer_check console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" --boot-drive=sda
text
skipx
zerombr
clearpart --all --initlabel
clearpart --all --drives=sda
ignoredisk --only-use=sda
part /boot --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --size=512
part / --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=sda --grow --size=1
firstboot --disabled
reboot
%packages --ignoremissing --excludedocs
@^minimal
@core
# Prerequisites for installing VMware Tools or VirtualBox guest additions.
# Put in kickstart to ensure first version installed is from install disk,
# not latest from a mirror.
kernel-headers
kernel-devel
gcc
make
perl
curl
wget
bzip2
patch
net-tools
selinux-policy-devel
# Core selinux dependencies installed on 7.x, no need to specify
# Other stuff
sudo
nfs-utils
-fprintd-pam
-intltool
# Microcode updates cannot work in a VM
-microcode_ctl
# unnecessary firmware
-aic94xx-firmware
-alsa-firmware
-alsa-tools-firmware
-atmel-firmware
-b43-openfwwf
-bfa-firmware
-ipw*-firmware
-irqbalance
-ivtv-firmware
-iwl*-firmware
-kernel-firmware
-libertas-usb8388-firmware
-ql*-firmware
-rt61pci-firmware
-rt73usb-firmware
-xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware
-zd1211-firmware
# Don't build rescue initramfs
-dracut-config-rescue
%end
%post --log=/var/log/ks.post02.log
#!/bin/bash
set -x
yum-config-manager --add-repo http://centos.mirror.org
# Install sdc-vmtools guest tools
echo "Installing VM Tools..."
# Install open-vm-tools, required to detect IP when building on ESXi
sudo yum -y install open-vm-tools
sudo systemctl enable vmtoolsd
sudo systemctl start vmtoolsd
%end
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Rickard von Essen
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Steve Schofield
That is a typo by me when removing actual values. There is no space otherwise.
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Steve Schofield
At the top of my kickstart file there are two repo names. Don’t those get added by default?
# Set repo to mirror.centos.org
repo --name="CentOS" --baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ --cost=100
repo --name="Updates" --baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ --cost=100
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