VMWare Tools ISO Error (Skip?)

[William]

Hi,

I am using packer to build Alpine Linux on ESXi 6.5 from macOS 10.13 and everything is working great except for one thing. It throws the following error:

"Build 'vmware' errored: Couldn't mount VMware tools ISO. Please check the 'guest_os_type' in your template.json."

I am using a value of "guest_os_type": "otherlinux-64",

Which in my case is fine since I am using open-vm-tools. But this exits non-gracefully and therefore I can't use post provisioners. 

Is there a way to skip mounting the tools and exit gracefully? At least it exits and still exports the OVA so I get a working build out of the process.

Thanks for the help. 

[Rickard von Essen]

What's your tools_upload_flavor?

https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware-iso.html#tools_upload_flavor

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[William Garrido]

I have 

"tools_upload_flavor":"linux",

[Rickard von Essen]

Set it to "" 

On Feb 7, 2018 08:02, "William Garrido" <wgar...@navigatingcancer.com> wrote:

I have 

"tools_upload_flavor":"linux",

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[William Garrido]

Thank you so much. I will try it in the morning. 

[William]

Worked great! Finished gracefully.