Packer with Esxi 6.5 and Virtual Distributed Switch

[Artem Silenkov]

Hello!

I'm trying to build vmware-iso on esxi 6.5 with vDS networking.
All is good except I can't connect my vm to networking. VMWare throws errors or NoData,

For working vm config part looks like:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3"
ethernet0.dvs.switchId = "50 1f aa d0 7d 6e a4 41-50 0f 8f 7b 7b e4 25 1a"
ethernet0.dvs.portId = "16"
ethernet0.dvs.portgroupId = "dvportgroup-119"
ethernet0.dvs.connectionId = "483689523"
ethernet0.shares = "normal"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:19:8f:18"

How could I construct my vmx_data array for vDS networking? Tried different combinations with no success.

Thanks in advance

[Rickard von Essen]

I  not sure it can be made to work with Packer. See https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/2715#issuecomment-278844793

At the bottom someone reported a workaround. 

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[Artem Silenkov]

This workaround saved my day thanks.

I  not sure it can be made to work with Packer. See https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/2715#issuecomment-278844793

At the bottom someone reported a workaround. 

On Jul 30, 2017 01:36, "Artem Silenkov" <artem.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!

I'm trying to build vmware-iso on esxi 6.5 with vDS networking.
All is good except I can't connect my vm to networking. VMWare throws errors or NoData,

For working vm config part looks like:

ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3"
ethernet0.dvs.switchId = "50 1f aa d0 7d 6e a4 41-50 0f 8f 7b 7b e4 25 1a"
ethernet0.dvs.portId = "16"
ethernet0.dvs.portgroupId = "dvportgroup-119"
ethernet0.dvs.connectionId = "483689523"
ethernet0.shares = "normal"
ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
ethernet0.generatedAddress = "00:0c:29:19:8f:18"

How could I construct my vmx_data array for vDS networking? Tried different combinations with no success.

Thanks in advance

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