vmware-iso failes with "Error detecting host IP: IP not found in ifconfig output"

[Markus Uckelmann]

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Hi all,

I want to build a CentOS 7 VM via Vmware Workstation. But it always
fails with the above error. Packers JSON and the packer.log can be
found under [1]. The specific Vmware network devices do exist:

> sudo ip a l | grep -A 1 vmnet
14: vmnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
15: vmnet8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

AFAIK Packer per default uses the vmnet8 NAT device. I also was able
to manually install and run a CentOS 7 box using NAT/vmnet8. I'm
running out of ideas where to look so any help would be much appreciated.

[1] https://gist.github.com/bemeyert/aa8b0128ece94d5ea8c6


P.S.: To the admins of this ML. I was subscribed to this ML with
another account and none of my mails got through. So I had to
subscribe with this account.


Regards, Markus
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[Markus Uckelmann]

Am 04.09.2014 um 12:55 schrieb Markus Uckelmann:
> > sudo ip a l | grep -A 1 vmnet
> 14: vmnet1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
> pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
> link/ether 00:50:56:c0:00:01 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 15: vmnet8: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
> pfifo_fast state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
> link/ether 00:50:56:c0:00:08 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

I answered my own question and didn't see it(DOH!). Both devices are
down. The installation of Vmware Workstation naturally does *not* work
with Archlinux. After I restarted Vmware with the scripts in
/etc/init.d(systemd unit files didn't work) I had the above devices up
and running.

Sry, my stupidity.

Cheers, Markus