Packer for Xenserver

[Kiran]

Hello there,

I want to use packer to create images for XenServer.

I see that there is a packer builder for Xenserver available at: https://github.com/xenserver/packer-builder-xenserver

The instructions at the above github link ask us to install and build a development version of packer.

Is it absolutely necessary to build a development version of packer? Or can i just install packer for my windows environment and try to build the packer-builder for xenserver?

Also, has anyone been successful with building packer on Windows 10 x64 environments?

Regards,

Kiran Hegde

[Rickard von Essen]

I'm pretty sure you should be fine with just installing the latest version of Packer (1.2.4) and then skip directly to https://github.com/xenserver/packer-builder-xenserver#compile-the-plugin

The plugin looks a bit dated, so check issues and PR's if you have any problems. It should be possible to build on Win 10 even though the docs is mostly for ~nix (https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#setting-up-go-to-work-on-packer). If you have troubles just get back here, there are people on the list that develop on Windows.

// Rickard

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[Kiran]

Hello Rickard,

You were right. I just downloaded packer and i was able to build the tool.

It seems to me that its not really required to have packer available on the system to be able to build. I just followed the instructions in the below link of yours and the builders for xenserver were created.

My other question is, packer is just an executable and i can copy it anywhere on the system. Is that a correct understanding?

How does it go about locating the Xenserver builders? Should the builders be available in a certain path?

Also, do you know of any examples of building XenServer images hosting Windows using Packer? Are there any templates that i could refer to?

Regards,

Kiran Hegde

On Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at 11:40:11 PM UTC+5:30, Rickard von Essen wrote:

I'm pretty sure you should be fine with just installing the latest version of Packer (1.2.4) and then skip directly to https://github.com/xenserver/packer-builder-xenserver#compile-the-plugin

The plugin looks a bit dated, so check issues and PR's if you have any problems. It should be possible to build on Win 10 even though the docs is mostly for ~nix (https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/master/.github/CONTRIBUTING.md#setting-up-go-to-work-on-packer). If you have troubles just get back here, there are people on the list that develop on Windows.

// Rickard

On 6 June 2018 at 18:43, Kiran <kirann...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello there,

I want to use packer to create images for XenServer.

I see that there is a packer builder for Xenserver available at: https://github.com/xenserver/packer-builder-xenserver

The instructions at the above github link ask us to install and build a development version of packer.

Is it absolutely necessary to build a development version of packer? Or can i just install packer for my windows environment and try to build the packer-builder for xenserver?

Also, has anyone been successful with building packer on Windows 10 x64 environments?

Regards,

Kiran Hegde

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[Rickard von Essen]

These templates should be good:

https://github.com/xenserver/packer-templates

Yes packer is a statically linked binary that you can put anywhere.

Packer looks up plugins according to this:

https://www.packer.io/docs/extending/plugins.html#installing-plugins

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