how to keep ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/vm-name/ on packer error?

[chris snow]

When packer encounters an error during setting up a box, it seems to rewind and delete the box in ~/VirtualBox\ VMs/vm-name/

Is there a configuration option to prevent this folder being deleted?  I would like to keep the folder so that I can view the log files.

Many thanks,

Chris

[Prasanna Santhanam]

I think you can do this using the "keep_input_artifact" arg in your
post-processor. Documented in http://www.packer.io/docs/templates/post-processors.html

Usually I use the build's debug mode to login and fix issues while
developing the recipe.

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Prasanna.,

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[Kyle Passarelli]

I think that the 'keep-input-artifact' only comes into play during post processing: it will keep the provisioned virtual machine around after pre-processing (say, to a Vagrant box).

The -debug flag is probably what's doing the trick.  I'll start using it.

k

[Ivan Ilves]

Hey there could be a workaround for a shell provisioner, I have no idea about other provisioners though. :-/