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khayat
khayat

Reputation: 133

Packer prepare error while building an image using VMware player as host

I am new to packer.

I am trying to build a vmware VM using packer. I am using VMware player as host.

I set the variables and select the builders as following:

"builders": [ { "boot_command": [" text net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/ks.cfg"], "disk_size": "{{ user disk_size }}", "cpus": "{{ user cpus }}", "memory": "{{ user memory }}", "guest_os_type": "{{ user guest_os_type }}", "headless": "{{ user headless }}", "iso_checksum": "{{ user iso_checksum }}", "iso_checksum_type": "{{ user iso_checksum_type }}", "iso_url": "{{ user iso_url }}", "output_directory": "output-{{ user vm_name }}-cloud", "shutdown_command": "{{ user shutdown_command }}", "shutdown_timeout": "5m", "ssh_password": "{{ user ssh_password }}", "ssh_username": "{{ user ssh_username }}", "ssh_wait_timeout": "{{ user ssh_wait_timeout }}", "type": "vmware-iso", "vm_name": "{{ user vm_name }}" } ],

"variables": { "cpus": "2", "disk_size": "", "headless": "false", "iso_checksum": "", "iso_checksum_type": "sha256", "iso_url": "file://", "kickstart": "ks.cfg", "memory": "512", "shutdown_command": "shutdown -P now", "ssh_password": "packer", "ssh_username": "root", "ssh_wait_timeout" : "10000s", "guest_os_type": "rhel7-64", "vm_name": "" }

The error I am receiving is "Build 'vmware-iso' prepare failure: 1 error occurred: * unknown configuration key:" then it list all the parameters

After that I am receiving this --> and ctx data is map[interface {}]interface {}(nil)

Anyone can help?

Thanks in advance!!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1981

Answers (1)

khayat
khayat

Reputation: 133

After a I run the following commands:

"packer fix myfile.json > myfile-fixed.json"

"packer validate myfile-fixed.json"

issue resolved

Upvotes: 1

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