Packer Time out ssh with vmware-vmx

Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 10, 2016, 2:22:46 PM10/10/16

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I am trying to build an vmware appliance with packer.

I have a base vmx file which i am just trying to connect to the machine with SSH after launching with packer, but its failing to ssh though I manually can do ssh to that box, But packer is not able to.

any inputs?

Build 'vmware-vmx' errored: Timeout waiting for SSH

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Oct 11, 2016, 6:59:41 AM10/11/16

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hello

not enough information i am afraid.

Can you share a copy of your files in a github repo for review?

Thanks

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Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 13, 2016, 5:55:45 PM10/13/16

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Hi Thanks for reply below is my build.json file

{

"builders": [

{

"type": "vmware-vmx",

"source_path": "/tmp/abc.vmx",

"vm_name": "abc-test-vm",

"ssh_username": "root",

"ssh_password": "ProspectHills",

"http_directory" : "preseeds",

"http_port_min" : 9001,

"http_port_max" : 9001,

"ssh_wait_timeout": "1000s",

"headless": true

}

]

}

On Tuesday, October 11, 2016 at 3:59:41 AM UTC-7, Alvaro Miranda Aguilera wrote:

hello

not enough information i am afraid.

Can you share a copy of your files in a github repo for review?

Thanks
Alvaro.

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Siva Abbannagari <siva.abb...@gmail.com> wrote:

I am trying to build an vmware appliance with packer.

I have a base vmx file which i am just trying to connect to the machine with SSH after launching with packer, but its failing to ssh though I manually can do ssh to that box, But packer is not able to.

any inputs?

Build 'vmware-vmx' errored: Timeout waiting for SSH

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Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Oct 14, 2016, 3:37:44 AM10/14/16

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hello

assuming there is a vmx file here: /tmp/abc.vmx

when you run packer build

what happens?

What should be happening and is not happening?

PACKER_LOG=1 packer build <templatename>

that should provide more information.

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Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 17, 2016, 3:36:36 PM10/17/16

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Hi Alvaro,

Please find logs below:

My Packer version is 0.10.1

Warnings for build 'vmware-vmx':

* A shutdown_command was not specified. Without a shutdown command, Packer

will forcibly halt the virtual machine, which may result in data loss.

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepPrepareTools'. Press enter to continue.

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepOutputDir'. Press enter to continue.

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepCreateFloppy'. Press enter to continue.

==> vmware-vmx: Cloning source VM...

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepCloneVMX'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepConfigureVMX'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepSuppressMessages'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Starting HTTP server on port 9001

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepHTTPServer'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepConfigureVNC'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Starting virtual machine...

vmware-vmx: The VM will be run headless, without a GUI. If you want to

vmware-vmx: view the screen of the VM, connect via VNC without a password to

vmware-vmx: 127.0.0.1:5928

==> vmware-vmx: Waiting 10s for boot...

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepRun'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Connecting to VM via VNC

==> vmware-vmx: Typing the boot command over VNC...

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing after run of step 'StepTypeBootCommand'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Waiting for SSH to become available...

==> vmware-vmx: Timeout waiting for SSH.

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepTypeBootCommand'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepRun'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Stopping virtual machine...

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepConfigureVNC'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepHTTPServer'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepSuppressMessages'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepConfigureVMX'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepCloneVMX'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepCreateFloppy'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepOutputDir'. Press enter to continue. ==> vmware-vmx: Deleting output directory...

==> vmware-vmx: Pausing before cleanup of step 'StepPrepareTools'. Press enter to continue. Build 'vmware-vmx' errored: Timeout waiting for SSH.

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:

--> vmware-vmx: Timeout waiting for SSH.

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

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Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Oct 17, 2016, 4:56:17 PM10/17/16

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seems the VM is not starting the network, so packer can't ssh into.

When you turn this VM on does get ip from dhcp and you can ssh to the IP it gets?

Whats the OS ?

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Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 17, 2016, 6:23:58 PM10/17/16

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It is Centos 6.6,

It is getting the IP , Actually I see the Ip on the VMWARE welcome screen and can connect to it as well.

Whether that ip is returned back to packer or no I am not aware of it.

This What I have done, In VMWARE workstation I opened the Instances and went to console on the VMWARE login screen it has the IP ,I can login to that IP.

Thanks,

Siva

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Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 17, 2016, 6:24:14 PM10/17/16

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Sorry Centos6.8

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Oct 18, 2016, 4:05:03 AM10/18/16

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hello

when you pack the box, do you make sure its possible to reuse a clone ?

When you start manually this new VM and login, can you share the output of

ifconfig -a

if you see the dhcp ip on the eth1 instead of eth0 that probably will show that you are not packing the box properly.

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persitent-net.rule

Those files usually prevent the clone to start properly

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Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 18, 2016, 2:51:57 PM10/18/16

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Hi Alvaro,

I started the VMX manually and checked the same the IP is on eth0 interface and it does not have the persistent rules file.(note that I have changed the IP)

[root@localhost ~]# ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:26:49:17:EC

inet addr:1.1.1.1 Bcast:10.10.3.255 Mask:255.255.252.0

inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fe49:97dc/64 Scope:Link

UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

RX packets:964 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:98 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000

RX bytes:173576 (169.5 KiB) TX bytes:14317 (13.9 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1

RX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:54 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:23888 (23.3 KiB) TX bytes:23888 (23.3 KiB)

[root@localhost ~]# ls -arlth /etc/udev/rules.d/

total 20K

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 316 May 10 22:58 60-raw.rules

-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 304 May 10 23:55 98-kexec.rules

drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4.0K Jun 23 15:47 .

drwxr-xr-x. 4 root root 4.0K Jun 23 19:39 ..

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 341 Jun 23 19:47 99-vmware-scsi-udev.rules

[root@localhost ~]# ls /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg*

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo

[root@localhost ~]#

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Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 18, 2016, 3:14:58 PM10/18/16

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One more thing I figured out is

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 is symlink of

/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0

Would it cause any issue?

Thanks,

Siva

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Oct 19, 2016, 5:11:34 AM10/19/16

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:14 PM, Siva Abbannagari <siva.abb...@gmail.com> wrote:

/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0

hello

this is a new VM based of the source one? like a clone?

Can you share a copy of /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0

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Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 19, 2016, 12:10:29 PM10/19/16

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Here is my /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 file contents

DEVICE=eth0

BOOTPROTO=dhcp

ONBOOT=yes

TYPE=Ethernet

Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 20, 2016, 3:03:24 PM10/20/16

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HI Alvaro

Is there anyting I have missed and thats the reason it is not doing SSH?

Thanks,

Siva

Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 24, 2016, 1:38:40 PM10/24/16

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Hi Alvaro,

any findings on this?

Thanks,

Siva

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Oct 24, 2016, 4:31:44 PM10/24/16

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Hello,

Nothing from what I can see on this end.

Could you share a copy of the VM ? Happy to have a look.

Dropbox works fine,. Feel free to send a direct email with linux and user/pass

Thanks

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Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 25, 2016, 2:36:07 PM10/25/16

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I will share the VM, can your share your direct email please?

One more things is thats its a OVA I unpacked it to vmx with ovftool.

Thanks,

Siva

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Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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my email is on this thread.

kikitux

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Siva Abbannagari

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Oct 25, 2016, 6:13:26 PM10/25/16

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Thanks,

Siva

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Did you find a solution after all ?

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