Packer build fails with visual studio

[racoon]

Hey guys,

I use the following:

- Packer v1.3.4

- OS: Fedora 29 Workstation (4.20.6-200.fc29.x86_64)

- Virtualization Platform: VMware Workstation 15.0.2 build-10952284

- Editor: Visual Studio version: 1.31.0

My goal is:

- I try to build templates for VMs (mainly Debian, CentOS & Fedora)

The problem:

I recognized that packer can not build a vm when it is executed by Visual Studio as a task.

E.g. while installing Debian, the installation stops right after getting an IP address from DHCP Server and try to retrieve the preseed.cfg. I can see it when I switch console with ALT + F4. Nothing happens.

My tasks.json looks like this:

{

// See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558

// for the documentation about the tasks.json format

"version": "2.0.0",

"tasks": [

{

"label": "validate",

"type": "shell",

"command": "packer",

"args": [

"validate",

"/home/racoon/packer/debian/test.json"

]

},

{

"label": "build",

"type": "shell",

"command": "packer",

"args": [

"build",

"/home/racoon/packer/debian/test.json"

]

}

]

}

When I execute the build command with the same JSON config from the command line everything works fine as expected.

[user@workstation]$ packer build debian-stretch.json

Does anyone have a clue why this behaviour occurs? Help would be much appreciated.

[Bikash Bhandari]

Did you try using

ssh_pty: true 

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[Bikash Bhandari]

"builders": [{
    ...
    "ssh_pty": true