vmware-iso: Registering remote VM... possibly waits on a timeout

[mate....@astc-design.com]

Hi there,

I started experimenting with the vmware-iso builder using a vSphere 6.5 host. The first few builds were flawless then after a few days, when I got back to the project, the build procedure waits for at least 30-45 minutes after the "vmware-iso: Starting HTTP server" phase.

I tried to correlate this to events in the logs on the vSphere host but nothing stands out for me.

Doing a strace on the packer process I get this: futex(0x1f674b0, FUTEX_WAIT, 0, NULL

The problem is constantly present but I have no idea what is causing it.

I'd like to ask your your help who are more experienced with packer and vSphere, maybe you have encountered this issue or can give me some this of how to debug it.

Kind regards,

Mate

[Matthew Hooker]

If you can send a log of packer with `PACKER_LOG=1` set, and any logs you can get from vsphere, it would help.

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[mate....@astc-design.com]

Hi Matthew,

the PACKER_LOG option immediately revealed the error. Packer was trying to connect the the VNC port on the vSphere host. Somehow the firewall rules allowing the VNC port range used by packer disappeared. Opening the firewall resolved my issue.

Thank you!

Kind regards,

Mate

[Matthew Hooker]

glad to hear it =)

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