Packer Windows with Parallels Desktop: "Cannot connect Hard Drive 1"

[Dimitri Tavan]

Hello, I'm trying to build a box for Parallels Desktop, it builds the box fine but when I try to use it it gives me the same error every time : "Cannot connect Hard Drive 1"

Here's the template I used to make it : https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows

I don't know how to resolve this problem.

I have Packer 1.21, Parallels Desktop 13.3.0-43321 and I'm on High Sierra 10.13.3

Thanks in advance

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

i don't have parallels to try what happen, so I will suggest check the VM have the right number of disk and its trying to boot for the proper disk

ie disk 0 vs disk 1

other than that, i will suggest a different repo until you can find one that works and you can start updating it to get it work as you require

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[Dimitri Tavan]

I tried on different repo and the error is still the same, even with the boxcutter one ( https://github.com/boxcutter/windows.git )

[Rickard von Essen]

Exactly which template do you try to build from "packer-windows"?

On 5 March 2018 at 12:10, Dimitri Tavan <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried on different repo and the error is still the same, even with the boxcutter one ( https://github.com/boxcutter/windows.git )

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[Dimitri Tavan]

I tried to build windows_10.json, It works with Virtualbox but not Parallels.

Le lundi 5 mars 2018 14:44:27 UTC+1, Rickard von Essen a écrit :

Exactly which template do you try to build from "packer-windows"?

On 5 March 2018 at 12:10, Dimitri Tavan <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I tried on different repo and the error is still the same, even with the boxcutter one ( https://github.com/boxcutter/windows.git )

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[Rickard von Essen]

Just tried joefitzgerald/packer-windows/windows_10.json and it works fine for me.

I have the following versions:

Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro Ed version 13.2.0 (43213)

Vagrant 2.0.2

vagrant-parallels (1.7.8)

Packer v1.1.3-dev (567b566c2+CHANGES) (there haven't been any changes to the parallels builder since 1.0.4)

First of all ensure that your Vagrant and plugin is up to date and try again. Otherwise I would try reinstall Parallels and verifying the content of the box being built.

For reference this is what I tested:

packer build -only parallels-iso windows_10.json

vagrant box add Windows10 windows_10_parallels.box

mkdir tmp && cd tmp

vagrant init windows10 --provider parallels

vagrant up

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[Dimitri Tavan]

I have the following versions: 

Parallels Desktop for Mac Pro version 13.3.0 (443321)

Vagrant 2.0.3

vagrant-parallels (1.7.8)

packer 1.2.1

And it still gives me the same error, I don't know why I doesn't fail on build nothing, just gives me the same error every time.

I even made a clean install of High Sierra and reinstalled everything and I have the same results.

[Rickard von Essen]

Can you run Vagrant with debug logging and paste the log here where the error is visible. Can you run any other boxes, say bento/centos-7.4? 

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[Dimitri Tavan]

Yes I can run any other boxes, here's the log for packer and vagrant debug : https://paste.ee/p/kPgvS

[Rickard von Essen]

Could you put the box somewhere so I can download it and send me a link privately so I can test it? You can send the link to rickard.von.essen at gmail.com

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[Rickard von Essen]

I get the same error with your box. And trying to untar it gives an error:

tar -xzf ../windows_10_parallels.box

packer-parallels-iso.pvm/harddisk1.hdd/harddisk1.hdd.0.{5fbaabe3-6958-40ff-92a7-860e329aab41}.hds: Attempt to write to an empty file

tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.

Are you running out of disk space or something?

[Dimitri Tavan]

I got enough space in my SSD I think, I have more than 100GB free..

[Rickard von Essen]

How about untar'ing the box, is the archive correct? 

On Mar 18, 2018 5:22 PM, "Dimitri Tavan" <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I got enough space in my SSD I think, I have more than 100GB free..

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[Dimitri Tavan]

Gives me the same error as you, I don't get why

[Rickard von Essen]

Ok, but then we are closing in on the error. For some reason the box file on your computer gets currupted. I'll try to repro that with the release version of Packer that you are using. 

On Mar 18, 2018 7:43 PM, "Dimitri Tavan" <dimitr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Gives me the same error as you, I don't get why

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[Dimitri Tavan]

I found a solution I needed to downgrade to Packer 1.1.3, here's the issues related to the problem : 

https://github.com/StefanScherer/packer-windows/issues/87 

https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/5990