Can not use 'Bridged" connection to SSH connect to VM, while 'nat' works as expected.

[Jaikumar Sharma]

Hi all,

I'm new to packer; i've written the script to export Virtualbox OVA from headless installation DVD of my product (no preceed is required in packer config).

Issue i'm facing is if i use ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", "bridged"] then packer is not able to connect to newly installed VM and gets SSH Time out, but if I use ["modifyvm", "{{.Name}}", "--nic1", "nat"], it successfully connect through SSH and shut down the VM and export the OVA successfully.

My product is based on Debian Jessie.

I've googled as to why using 'bridged' connection it is not able to connect to VM, but no fruitful results or answer i'm getting. Does somebody know what is wrong ?

Attached is the template.

Thank you in advance!

Regards

Jaikumar

[Rickard von Essen]

There are some quirks around VirtualBox networking.

Try adding https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-iso.html#ssh_skip_nat_mapping true

If that doesn't help you can always run with nat nic and then use vboxmanage_post to change the network to bridged if your product properly auto configures network. See https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/virtualbox-iso.html#vboxmanage_post

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