Cannot export to vcenter, without much of an explanation about why in packerlog

[yakza...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I've been struggling with Packer and the vsphere post-processor.

Packer can create my VM, run the provisionner and exporting as vmx to my packer server, but when it comes to upload it to a vcenter, it just stops without much of an explanation why.

I've been through a lot a tickets on this group and onto the github as well but couldnt find anything that could help. but I can't find anything in packerlog that could help me, it just says :

2019/03/11 14:32:39 packer_1.3.5: 2019/03/11 14:32:39 Starting ovftool with parameters: --acceptAllEulas --name=Windows_Server_2016_EN_Packer_Test --datastore=VOL_ISO --noSSLVerify=true --diskMode=thin --network="VM Network" output-vmware-iso/windows_Server_2016/windows_Server_2016.vmx vi://user:<password>@cloud-vc-z00r.net/z00r/host/CLOUD-z00r-CL/?dns=cloud-esx-z01r.net
2019/03/11 14:32:42 [INFO] (telemetry) ending vsphere
2019/03/11 14:32:42 Deleting original artifact for build 'vmware-iso'
2019/03/11 14:32:43 ui error: [1;31mBuild 'vmware-iso' errored: 1 error(s) occurred:

* Post-processor failed: Error uploading virtual machine: exit status 1

[0m
2019/03/11 14:32:43 Builds completed. Waiting on interrupt barrier...
2019/03/11 14:32:43 machine readable: error-count []string{"1"}
2019/03/11 14:32:43 ui error:
==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
2019/03/11 14:32:43 machine readable: vmware-iso,error []string{"1 error(s) occurred:\n\n* Post-processor failed: Error uploading virtual machine: exit status 1\n\n"}
2019/03/11 14:32:43 ui error: --> vmware-iso: 1 error(s) occurred:

* Post-processor failed: Error uploading virtual machine: exit status 1

2019/03/11 14:32:43 ui:
==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
2019/03/11 14:32:43 [INFO] (telemetry) Finalizing.
2019/03/11 14:32:44 waiting for all plugin processes to complete...
2019/03/11 14:32:44 /usr/bin/packer_1.3.5: plugin process exited

I've been using Packer 1.3.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[yakza...@gmail.com]

UPDATE : I tried removing the post-processor bloc at the end of json, and launch the ovftool command that was failing (the one I posted) manually and it's working well.. My guess is some characters in the password are not being read by packer...Is there any informations about that anywhere ?

[Megan Marsh]

We url-encode the password, so that shouldn't be the issue. We also verify the username and password at the beginning of the run, so I don't think the issue is that you've typo'd your credentials. For now, you can try using the shell-local postprocessor to call ovftool directly as a workaround.

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