Packer file provisioner failing with windows virtual machines

[Harsh Desai]

Hi 

It tried using the packer file provisioner to copy a directory (containing a single file init.pp) to a windows machine. However, it fails to do so (however the packer build still suceeds).

2013/09/13 17:32:38 ui: ==> vmware: Uploading /mnt/netstore/users/hdesai/automation/puppet/windev/manifests/ => C:\

2013/09/13 17:32:38 /home/devp/packer/packer-builder-vmware: 2013/09/13 17:32:38 Upload dir '/mnt/netstore/users/hdesai/automation/puppet/windev/manifests/' to 'C:\'

2013/09/13 17:32:38 /home/devp/packer/packer-builder-vmware: 2013/09/13 17:32:38 opening new ssh session

2013/09/13 17:32:38 /home/devp/packer/packer-builder-vmware: 2013/09/13 17:32:38 Starting remote scp process:  scp -rvt C:\

2013/09/13 17:32:38 /home/devp/packer/packer-builder-vmware: 2013/09/13 17:32:38 Started SCP session, beginning transfers...

2013/09/13 17:32:38 /home/devp/packer/packer-builder-vmware: 2013/09/13 17:32:38 Copying input data into in-memory buffer so we can get the length

2013/09/13 17:32:39 /home/devp/packer/packer-builder-vmware: 2013/09/13 17:32:39 Beginning file upload...

2013/09/13 17:32:39 /home/devp/packer/packer-builder-vmware: 2013/09/13 17:32:39 SCP session complete, closing stdin pipe.

2013/09/13 17:32:39 /home/devp/packer/packer-builder-vmware: 2013/09/13 17:32:39 Waiting for SSH session to complete.

2013/09/13 17:32:39 /home/devp/packer/packer-builder-vmware: 2013/09/13 17:32:39 scp stderr (length 24): Sink: C0644 713 init.pp

My file provisioner in the template looks like:

{

      "destination": "C:\\", 

      "source": "/mnt/netstore/users/hdesai/automation/puppet/windev/manifests/", 

      "type": "file"

}

Has anybody else tried using the file provisioner with windows?

Thanks

Harsh

[ja...@geteventstore.com]

Hi,

I'm seeing the same behaviour trying to copy in files to a Windows guest as well. Did you find a solution for this?

James

[ja...@geteventstore.com]

Hi

Actually I found a solution to this. Specifying a destination path doesn't appear to work. If you just specify the filename your file will end up in C:\Users\vagrant\filename, and you can then use a shell provisioner to copy it to where you need.

Cheers,

James

[Tim Cleary]

Mine wouldn't even upload to C:\Users\vagrant.

My workaround: stick the files in packer/scripts, mount them in "floppy_files" in the template json file instead.