Two questions about use a virtualbox-iso builder

[CesarJ M]

Hi,

I'm a beginner in use packer.

I have managed to create my image using vitualbox-iso.
Generates two files:
imagename.ovf
imagename-disk001.vmdk

One questions is:
How do I get a filename like imagename.vmdk? The VirtualBox does this when I create a VM manually.

And second question:
How do I generate a vdi file directly?
Example: generate in output-virtualbox-iso the file imagename.vdi


Regards

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

If you would share more information on what you will be doing, how you will be using those files, perhaps that will help to see the whole picture.

Out  of the box packer takes an iso, create a VM with a VDI disk and OVF definition, then at the end, it export the VM and creates a OVF file and a VMDK file.

format (string) - Either "ovf" or "ova", this specifies the output format of the exported virtual machine. This defaults to "ovf".

I don't think there is a way to set the name of the disk as its created automatically.

https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-iso.html

the VDI disk is done with the name of the box, but the export add the num of the disk:

https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/builder/virtualbox/iso/step_create_disk.go#L26

alvaro

You could override this last part and tell packer to export as OVA instead of OVF.

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[CesarJ M]

Hi,

Many thank to your help!

The whole picture is this:
https://github.com/cesarjorgemartinez/automatevmimages

Here (when I have a bit of time), I build Linux image minimal with Windows. Only by now build centos images, I would like to be able to build other types of Linux, Ubuntu, etc.

Regards,

Cesar Jorge

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