VMware ovf as starting image

[Peter Teichner]

Hi All,

Is it possible at all to start from an ovf template and generate a new one after running some scripts inside it?

Obviously I've seen the iso and the vmx options as starting point but I use vsphere.

Thanks,
Pete

[Rickard von Essen]

For remote (ESXi) builds only the vmware-iso builder works.

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[Peter Teichner]

I guess that's not ideal but I can start from a redhat iso. Could I run Kickstart scripts as part of the setup?

[Rickard von Essen]

Yes you can, see https://github.com/chef/bento for some good examples.

On Oct 28, 2016 12:03 AM, "'Peter Teichner' via Packer" <packe...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I guess that's not ideal but I can start from a redhat iso. Could I run Kickstart scripts as part of the setup?

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

For a more manual one you could:

use shell-local to create a VM from template

use null provider to just connect and run scripts in packer.

This will create a chicken egg situation where you don't know the IP of the box.

IF you use a wrapper

you could se Terraform or some script to create a vm

packer null provider to run scripts.

here, since packer is just running scripts, you could just use directly the tool used in the previous step to run scripts too

Hope this helps 

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