Post-Processor Local-Shell

[James Elmes]

Hi I am trying to export my final artifact (VMX file on a remote esxi host) to an OVA, this command works if i populate variables manually.

Please see my Template and variables attached.

this command works fine:

ovftool -tt=ova vi://root:pass...@10.1.1.15/Windows2012R2v4-2017-06 ovaexport.ova

this doesn't:

  "post-processors": [

    {

    "type":"shell-local",

    "inline":"ovftool/ovftool -tt=ova vi://{{user `esxi_username`}}:{{user `esxi_password`}}@{{user `esxi_host`}}/{{ .Name }} ovaexport1.ova"

IF anyone has managed to pass these variables through successfully or can see what i am doing wrong that would be great if you could help..

James

[James Elmes]

Even when I insert the command as below it still fails, but if i run it from CMD locally its fine

  "post-processors": [

    {

    "type":"shell-local",

    "inline":"ovftool -tt=ova vi://root:pass...@10.1.1.15/Windows2012R2v1-2017-07 ovaexport1111.ova"

    }

==> Windows2012R2v1-2017-07: Running post-processor: shell-local

==> Windows2012R2v1-2017-07 (shell-local): Post processing with local shell script: C:\Users\ADMINI~1.ISS\AppData\Local\

Temp\packer-shell402030443

Build 'Windows2012R2v1-2017-07' errored: 1 error(s) occurred:

* Post-processor failed: Error executing script: C:\Users\ADMINI~1.ISS\AppData\Local\Temp\packer-shell402030443

[Rickard von Essen]

run with PACKER_LOG=1 and attache interesting parts of the log.

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[James Elmes]

The log doesn't really say anything, see below. I am running this on a windows machine, is there something else i need to do.. like use the "execute-command" option?

2017/07/05 21:12:19 packer.exe: 2017/07/05 21:12:19 starting remote command: ls -1p /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/output-Windows2012R2v1-2017-07

2017/07/05 21:12:19 ui: ==> Windows2012R2v1-2017-07: Running post-processor: shell-local

2017/07/05 21:12:19 ui: ==> Windows2012R2v1-2017-07 (shell-local): Post processing with local shell script: C:\Users\ADMINI~1.ISS\AppData\Local\Temp\packer-shell486898063

2017/07/05 21:12:19 packer.exe: 2017/07/05 21:12:19 starting local command: chmod +x "C:\Users\ADMINI~1.ISS\AppData\Local\Temp\packer-shell486898063"; PACKER_BUILDER_TYPE='vmware-iso' PACKER_BUILD_NAME='Windows2012R2v1-2017-07'  "C:\Users\ADMINI~1.ISS\AppData\Local\Temp\packer-shell486898063"

2017/07/05 21:12:19 Deleting original artifact for build 'Windows2012R2v1-2017-07'

2017/07/05 21:12:19 packer.exe: 2017/07/05 21:12:19 opening new ssh session

2017/07/05 21:12:19 packer.exe: 2017/07/05 21:12:19 starting remote command: rm -rf /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/output-Windows2012R2v1-2017-07

2017/07/05 21:12:19 ui error: Build 'Windows2012R2v1-2017-07' errored: 1 error(s) occurred:

* Post-processor failed: Error executing script: C:\Users\ADMINI~1.ISS\AppData\Local\Temp\packer-shell486898063

[Rickard von Essen]

Seems like it tries to chmod the script on windows. 

starting local command: chmod +x "C:\Users\ADMINI~1.ISS\AppData\Local\Temp\packer-shell486898063"; 

The problem with shell-local is that it ties the template to a host machine with certain properties (OS, tools, etc). You can try to override some of the configuration options such as execute_command but I'm not sure it will work for Windows. 

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[James Elmes]

so this cannot run on windows? do you know how i can change the post-processor local-shell to run on windows?

regards

James

[Rickard von Essen]

> so this cannot run on windows? 

At least not without modification.

> do you know how i can change the post-processor local-shell to run on windows?

I'm not sure, I don't have any Windows machine and don't really know much about windows. Just found https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/4140 please track that.

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