Loosing information in VirtualBox export/import: cable connected, Remote dispay

[Bruno Vernay]

I set information in post_manage, like 
"vboxmanage_post": [
["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--vrde", "off"],
["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", "nat"],
...
["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--cableconnected2", "on"]

But they are lost in translation. I have to re-set them on the command line, after having imported the VM:

VBoxManage modifyvm $VM_NAME --vrde off
VBoxManage modifyvm $VM_NAME --nic1 nat
...
VBoxManage modifyvm $VM_NAME --cableconnected2 on

I attached the ovf as produced by Packer via VirtualBox export and the logs.

Below is the diff between the machine imported before and after the modifyVM commands (via the shell)

30c30

<       <RemoteDisplay enabled="true">

---

>       <RemoteDisplay>

40c40

<         <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="08002775709D" cable="false" promiscuousModePolicy="AllowAll" type="virtio">

---

>         <Adapter slot="0" enabled="true" MACAddress="08002775709D" promiscuousModePolicy="AllowAll" type="virtio">

43c43

<         <Adapter slot="1" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027867BF6" cable="false" promiscuousModePolicy="AllowAll" type="virtio">

---

>         <Adapter slot="1" enabled="true" MACAddress="080027867BF6" promiscuousModePolicy="AllowAll" type="virtio">

Not sure if it is a VirtualBox or a Packer issue.  I will try to play with import/export to know more.

In the mean time maybe someone already had the issue ???   I did not find much on Google.

Using:

- Packer 0.10.1

- VirtualBox 5.1.2

- Fedora 23

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Can you share a zip with packer template and scripts? I can run a build in a MAC to test

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[Bruno Vernay]

Thanks

Here it is.  You may want to edit kickstart/fed.cfg to use the "No local cache URLs"    The whole project is here https://github.com/BrunoVernay/VM-images-packer

I also posted on VirtualBox, since I reproduce the problem without Packer actually.  Just exporting and re-importing a machine seems to loose the info, or I may have something misconfigured somewhere ... https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=78840

But overall , they are my 2 issues: The cables are disconnected (that is why I ended up messing up with post_manage)  and I have to specify the KVM virtualization (should be by default on Linux no?)

I feel I am not too far, at least I setup the local squid cache for RPM which is good.

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

hello,

is any of the templates that I can just do packer build <template> ?

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[Bruno Vernay]

In the zip file there are the template and the kickstart (where you might want to comment 2 lines)

That is the bare minimum. 

Then there is the guest addition shell provisioner, but you could comment it out in the template, It is not required.

The shell script is just an helper.

[Bruno Vernay]

Seems to be confirmed: problem appeared with VirtualBox v5.1 : https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=78840

[Søren Bjerregaard Vrist]

I'm seeing the same thing for my VB v5.1 packer builds :(