New to Packer : Help with building Virtual box VM image

[Ameya Karkhanis]

Hi 

I am using packer to build a Virtual box image running 64bit ubuntu 14.04.4 server. My use case is when users import this image by default their networking is set to Bridged mode and the option to reinitialize mac address be set. 

I tried to enforce that in my template.json as below:

Is there a way to enforce this when the off file is built? 

Is this virtual box specific issue? Should I try this with VMware?

Any help is much appreciated. 

{

  "builders": [

    {

      "type": "virtualbox-iso",

      "boot_command": [

        "<esc><wait>",

        "<esc><wait>",

        "<enter><wait>",

        "/install/vmlinuz<wait>",

        " auto<wait>",

        " console-setup/ask_detect=false<wait>",

        " console-setup/layoutcode=us<wait>",

        " console-setup/modelcode=pc105<wait>",

        " debian-installer=en_US<wait>",

        " fb=false<wait>",

        " initrd=/install/initrd.gz<wait>",

        " kbd-chooser/method=us<wait>",

        " keyboard-configuration/layout=USA<wait>",

        " keyboard-configuration/variant=USA<wait>",

        " locale=en_US<wait>",

        " netcfg/get_hostname=ubuntu-1404<wait>",

        " netcfg/get_domain=vm<wait>",

        " noapic<wait>",

        " preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg<wait>",

        " -- <wait>",

        "<enter><wait>"

      ],

      "boot_wait": "10s",

      "disk_size": 40960,

      "guest_os_type": "Ubuntu_64",

      "http_directory": "http",

      "iso_checksum": "2ac1f3e0de626e54d05065d6f549fa3a",

      "iso_checksum_type": "md5",

      "iso_url": "http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.4-server-amd64.iso",

      "ssh_username": "***",

      "ssh_password": "***",

      "ssh_port": 22,

      "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",

      "shutdown_command": "echo 'shutdown -P now' > /tmp/shutdown.sh; echo '***'|sudo -S sh '/tmp/shutdown.sh'",

      "vboxmanage": [

        [

          "modifyvm",

          "{{.Name}}",

          "--memory",

          "1024"

        ],

        [

          "modifyvm",

          "{{.Name}}",

          "--cpus",

          "1"

      ],

      [

          "modifyvm",

          "{{.Name}}",

          "--usb",

          "on"

      ],

      [

          "modifyvm",

          "{{.Name}}",

          "--nic0",

          "bridged"

      ],

      [

          "modifyvm",

          "{{.Name}}",

          "--macaddress0",

          "auto"

      ]

      ]

    }

],

"provisioners": [

    {

     "type": "shell",

     "execute_command": "echo '***'|sudo -E -S sh '{{.Path}}'",

     "override": {

       "virtualbox-iso": {

         "scripts": [

            "scripts/base.sh",

            "scripts/virtualbox.sh",

            "scripts/some_custom_scripts.sh",

            "scripts/cleanup.sh",

            "scripts/zerodisk.sh"

         ]

       }

     }

   }

 ]

}

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

you have 3 vbox manage options.

for the vm when created used for packer

for vm changes before export

There is an export/import that Packer does that reset many values to default

So, you can add a copy or move those nic changes to :

vboxmanage_post (array of array of strings) - Identical to vboxmanage, except that it is run after the virtual machine is shutdown, and before the virtual machine is exported.

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