vmware-iso with VMware Player on linux - no display issue

[Ryan B.]

Hi All,

I have VMware Player installed with the VIX Bundle as well as qemu-img on Centos 6.4.  When I attemp a build from a template that works on my mac with vmware fusion I get the following on the linux box (headless) ...

==> vmware-iso: Creating virtual machine disk

==> vmware-iso: Building and writing VMX file

==> vmware-iso: Starting HTTP server on port 8587

==> vmware-iso: Starting virtual machine...

==> vmware-iso: Error starting VM: VMware error: Error: Cannot launch the UI because no display server is present in the current environment

==> vmware-iso: Waiting 4.184298786s to give VMware time to clean up...

==> vmware-iso: Deleting output directory...

Build 'vmware-iso' errored: Error starting VM: VMware error: Error: Cannot launch the UI because no display server is present in the current environment

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:

--> vmware-iso: Error starting VM: VMware error: Error: Cannot launch the UI because no display server is present in the current environment

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

Is there a way to launch the VM without UI?  I know vmrun has a nogui option.  Not sure if that's what's needed.  If it is how can i pass that in thru packer?

Thanks.

-r

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Headless

 

http://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware-vmx.html

 

• headless (boolean) - Packer defaults to building VMware virtual machines by launching a GUI that shows the console of the machine being built. When this value is set to true, the machine will start without a console. For VMware machines, Packer will output VNC connection information in case you need to connect to the console to debug the build process.

put a parameter headless true in the json template and that should do the trick.

 

Alvaro

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[Ryan B.]

found it.. 

Add

"headless": true,

to the vmware-iso builder

-r

[Ryan B.]

thanks!