chrisipa/packer-esxi

Locking up at Building and writing VMX file

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Deleted user commented

The process makes it to Building and writing VMX file and then locks up. I cannot break out and have to close the session. I have verified that the OS disk has been created in ESXi.

chrisipa commented

Can you please post a log of your shell execution here. This would make this a lot of easier to debug on my end.

chrisipa commented

Closed due to inactivity ...

thusc commented

I had the same problem (posting the hanging line to help others find this):

==> some-vm-name: Building and writing VMX file

It was fixed by following the section "Open VNC Ports on the Firewall" in this post: https://nickcharlton.net/posts/using-packer-esxi-6.html

chrisipa commented

@thusc Ok that's interesting. I have also documented the opening of firewall ports here:

https://github.com/chrisipa/packer-esxi#allow-network-communication-for-packer

Did you try my instructions? Maybe I have to work on the documentation to make it more user friendly.

thusc commented

@chrisipa No I didn't know about your repository.

In my use case, I think I would like to use something like cloud-init to configure the VM, instead of doing everything at Packer-time.