qemu: Waiting for SSH to become available...

Srinivas Reddy

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I am trying to build a packer image for openstack . I am struck at " qemu: Waiting for SSH to become available... "Can anyone please help.

qemu: Downloading or copying ISO

qemu: Downloading or copying: file:///devops/packer/images/rhel-server-6.6-x86_64-dvd.iso

==> qemu: Creating hard drive...

==> qemu: Starting HTTP server on port 10084

==> qemu: Found port for communicator (SSH, WinRM, etc): 2226.

==> qemu: Looking for available port between 5900 and 6000

==> qemu: Found available VNC port: 5921

==> qemu: Starting VM, booting from CD-ROM

qemu: WARNING: The VM will be started in headless mode, as configured.

qemu: In headless mode, errors during the boot sequence or OS setup

qemu: won't be easily visible. Use at your own discretion.

==> qemu: Overriding defaults Qemu arguments with QemuArgs...

==> qemu: Waiting 5s for boot...

==> qemu: Connecting to VM via VNC

==> qemu: Typing the boot command over VNC...

==> qemu: Waiting for SSH to become available...

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Feb 6, 2017, 2:51:49 PM2/6/17

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please share your files. packer template and explain how the iso is unattended

are you familiar with unattended install on redhat?

kickstart?

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Srinivas Reddy

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Feb 6, 2017, 3:18:54 PM2/6/17

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Here are my packer file :

{

"builders":

[

{

"type": "qemu",

"iso_url": "file:///devops/packer/images/rhel-server-6.6-x86_64-dvd.iso",

"iso_checksum": "ef031b0ae8458d6489eb277ba1dcb5de",

"iso_checksum_type": "md5",

"output_directory": "output_centos_qcow2",

"ssh_wait_timeout": "30s",

"shutdown_command": "shutdown -P now",

"disk_size": 5000,

"format": "qcow2",

"headless": true,

"accelerator": "kvm",

"http_directory": "httpdir",

"http_port_min": 10082,

"http_port_max": 10089,

"ssh_host_port_min": 2222,

"ssh_host_port_max": 2229,

"ssh_username": "root",

"ssh_password": "MySecretPassword",

"ssh_port": 22,

"ssh_wait_timeout": "900m",

"vm_name": "testvm",

"net_device": "virtio-net",

"disk_interface": "virtio",

"boot_wait": "5s",

"qemuargs": [ "-serial", "file:serial.out" ],

"boot_command":

[

"",

" append console=ttyS0,115200n8 ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/centos6-ks.cfg",

""

]

}

],

"provisioners":

[

{

"type": "shell",

"inline": [

"sleep 3",

"rpm -ivh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm",

"yum -y update",

"yum -y install cloud-init cloud-utils-growpart dracut-modules-growroot",

"echo \"NOZEROCONF=yes\" >> /etc/sysconfig/network",

"adduser build-user",

"echo 'build-user:MySecretPassword' |chpasswd",

"mkdir /home/build-user/.ssh",

"chown build-user:build-user /home/build-user/.ssh",

"chmod 700 /home/build-user/.ssh",

"echo \"build-user ALL=(ALL) ALL\" >> /etc/sudoers",

"yum clean cache",

"yum clean all"

]

},

{

"type": "file",

"source": "centos.json",

"destination": "/root/centos.json",

"source": "httpdir/centos6-ks.cfg",

"destination": "/root/centos6-ks.cfg"

},

{

"type": "file",

"source": "id_rsa_cloud-user.pub",

"destination": "/home/build-user/.ssh/authorized_keys"

},

{

"type": "shell",

"inline": [

"chmod 600 /home/build-user/.ssh/authorized_keys",

"chown build-user:build-user /home/build-user/.ssh/authorized_keys",

"sed -i 's/^SELINUX=.*/SELINUX=permissive/g' /etc/selinux/config",

"echo package_upgrade: true >>/etc/cloud/cloud.cfg"

]

}

]

}

--------------------------KS----File ----------------------------------------

cmdline

skipx

install

# url of CentOS Mirror

url --url=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6/os/x86_64

repo --name=base --baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6/os/x86_64

repo --name=updates --baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6/updates/x86_64

repo --name=epel --baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora-epel/6/x86_64

repo --name=cloud-init --baseurl=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/SRPMS

#url --url http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/

#repo --name=updates --baseurl=http://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/centos/6.5/updates/x86_64/

lang en_US.UTF-8

keyboard us

rootpw MySecretPassword

# enable firewall, allow ssh

firewall --enabled --ssh

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512

# selinux can be disabled during installation, please reenable thereafter

selinux --disabled

timezone Etc/UTC

%include /tmp/kspre.cfg

services --enabled=network,sshd/sendmail

reboot

# because of dependency problems we can not use --nobase (some essencial are missing)

#%packages --nobase

%packages --nobase

selinux-policy-targeted

at

acpid

cronie-noanacron

crontabs

logrotate

mailx

mlocate

openssh-clients

openssh-server

rsync

sendmail

tmpwatch

vixie-cron

which

wget

epel-release

yum

-biosdevname

-postfix

-prelink

%end

%pre

bootdrive=vda

if [ -f "/dev/$bootdrive" ] ; then

exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3

chvt 3

echo "ERROR: Drive device does not exist at /dev/$bootdrive!"

sleep 5

halt -f

fi

cat >/tmp/kspre.cfg <> /etc/ssh/sshd_config

# at last to clean the image -->

yum clean all

%end

Srinivas Reddy

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Feb 7, 2017, 10:12:02 AM2/7/17

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correction:

"boot_command":

[

"",

" append console=ttyS0,115200n8 ks=http://10.44.0.126:80/centos6-ks.cfg",

On Monday, 6 February 2017 14:42:00 UTC-5, Srinivas Reddy wrote:

Srinivas Reddy

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Feb 7, 2017, 1:59:02 PM2/7/17

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I can access the Kickstart config file over http:

On Monday, 6 February 2017 14:42:00 UTC-5, Srinivas Reddy wrote:

Alvaro Miranda Aguilera

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Feb 7, 2017, 3:12:29 PM2/7/17

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hello

do a manual instalation, on the boot screen press the secuence of keys on your boot command and check the installation goes un-attended

once you get something that work, you will be sure packer will run them for you

but there is the requirement they need to work, so better test them without packer if possible

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