Help regarding virtualbox-iso

[Shashank]

Hey guys,

I am a newbie for the virtualbox-iso builder of the packer. I am having the below scenario:

I want to run my packer template from machine 1(which is not having any Virtual Box), and my Virtual Box is on machine 2. Is it possible to build an image under this scenario? 

I used amazon-ebs and azure-arm. In those builders, I can easily build images as images are built on AWS or Azure and I don't need to configure anything apart from credentials on machine 1(machine that is used for running packer.)

Thanks,

Shashank Agarwal

[Rickard von Essen]

For VirtualBox Packer need to run a machine where VirtualBox is installed and it will use this to spin up a VM, run provisioning on it and then create an image (OVA/OVF) from that.

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[Shashank]

Hi Rickard,

Thanks for replying. Actually, I want to know whether it will be possible that my packer resides on a machine and Virtual Box that packer uses resides on other machine?

On Thursday, June 13, 2019 at 1:27:03 PM UTC+5:30, Rickard von Essen wrote:

For VirtualBox Packer need to run a machine where VirtualBox is installed and it will use this to spin up a VM, run provisioning on it and then create an image (OVA/OVF) from that.

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 9:31 AM Shashank <shas...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey guys,

I am a newbie for the virtualbox-iso builder of the packer. I am having the below scenario:

I want to run my packer template from machine 1(which is not having any Virtual Box), and my Virtual Box is on machine 2. Is it possible to build an image under this scenario? 

I used amazon-ebs and azure-arm. In those builders, I can easily build images as images are built on AWS or Azure and I don't need to configure anything apart from credentials on machine 1(machine that is used for running packer.)

Thanks,

Shashank Agarwal

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[Rickard von Essen]

No

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