transferring files from a Windows VM

[Jon Hittner]

Hi-

   We have a need to copy some logs created during the provisioning off the VMs after they are created.   We solved the problem with linux using the file provisioner, but when we attempt to dod the transfer against windows like so:

    {

      "type": "file",

      "direction": "download",

      "source": "C:/install-report.yml",

      "only": ["virtualbox-iso"],

      "destination": "/corp/tc/reports/{{ user `vm_name` }}-v{{ user `version` }}.yml"

    }

we get:

==> virtualbox-iso: Downloading C:/install-report.yml => /corp/tc/reports/eval_windows_2012_r2-v1472874940.yml

==> virtualbox-iso: Download failed: WinRM doesn't support download.

Is this a limitation of WinRM?  Is there any other ways to transfer files off the windows machines at the end of the provisioning stage?

-Jon

[Jon Hittner]

After some looking into this issue, I found that although the file upload provisioner does not support downloading with WinRM, WinRM itself does indeed support it.    I guess my best option would be to write my own script to use winrm and call it via local shell provisioner.  Is this the best way to do this?    

Can anyone well me how to send my script the value of winrm_host and winrm_port?   Right now I allow packer to autoconfigure these values and if there is a  {{.Variable}} I can use, I can't figure out what it is.

Thanks

[Malte Witt]

I am facing the exact same issue right now trying to download a file, using WinRM communicator.

I had no luck using local shell provisioner on windows in the past, so if you figure out a way to work around this issue, please share your solution here :-)

Thanks,

Malte

[Jon Hittner]

yah.. What I finally ended up doing was writing a script to winrm the files from the new VM and calling that from the local-shell provisioner.  Unfortunately I was not able to find a way to pass the vagrant NAT port to the local-shell provisioner so I had hardcode the port (setting ssh_host_port_min and ssh_host_port_max to the value, so I am no longer able to build more then one host at a time using the same template, but I can live with that

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

if you are using Virtualbox, and you have virtualbox guest additions, you can use the shared folder to move files host <-> guest

Alvaro.

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