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@ -272,63 +272,63 @@ Linux server and have not enabled X11 forwarding (`ssh -X`).
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switch/value pairs. Any value specified as an empty string is ignored. All
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values after the switch are concatenated with no separator.
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~> **Warning:** The qemu command line allows extreme flexibility, so beware
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of conflicting arguments causing failures of your run. For instance, using
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--no-acpi could break the ability to send power signal type commands (e.g.,
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shutdown -P now) to the virtual machine, thus preventing proper shutdown. To see
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the defaults, look in the packer.log file and search for the qemu-system-x86
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command. The arguments are all printed for review.
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~> **Warning:** The qemu command line allows extreme flexibility, so beware
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of conflicting arguments causing failures of your run. For instance, using
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--no-acpi could break the ability to send power signal type commands (e.g.,
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shutdown -P now) to the virtual machine, thus preventing proper shutdown. To see
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the defaults, look in the packer.log file and search for the qemu-system-x86
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command. The arguments are all printed for review.
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The following shows a sample usage:
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The following shows a sample usage:
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``` json
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{
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"qemuargs": [
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[ "-m", "1024M" ],
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[ "--no-acpi", "" ],
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[
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"-netdev",
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"user,id=mynet0,",
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"hostfwd=hostip:hostport-guestip:guestport",
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""
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],
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[ "-device", "virtio-net,netdev=mynet0" ]
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]
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}
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```
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``` json
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{
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"qemuargs": [
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[ "-m", "1024M" ],
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[ "--no-acpi", "" ],
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[
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"-netdev",
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"user,id=mynet0,",
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"hostfwd=hostip:hostport-guestip:guestport",
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""
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],
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[ "-device", "virtio-net,netdev=mynet0" ]
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]
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}
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```
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would produce the following (not including other defaults supplied by the
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builder and not otherwise conflicting with the qemuargs):
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would produce the following (not including other defaults supplied by the
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builder and not otherwise conflicting with the qemuargs):
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``` text
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qemu-system-x86 -m 1024m --no-acpi -netdev user,id=mynet0,hostfwd=hostip:hostport-guestip:guestport -device virtio-net,netdev=mynet0"
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```
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``` text
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qemu-system-x86 -m 1024m --no-acpi -netdev user,id=mynet0,hostfwd=hostip:hostport-guestip:guestport -device virtio-net,netdev=mynet0"
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```
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~> **Windows Users:** [QEMU for Windows](https://qemu.weilnetz.de/) builds are available though an environmental variable does need
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to be set for QEMU for Windows to redirect stdout to the console instead of stdout.txt.
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~> **Windows Users:** [QEMU for Windows](https://qemu.weilnetz.de/) builds are available though an environmental variable does need
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to be set for QEMU for Windows to redirect stdout to the console instead of stdout.txt.
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The following shows the environment variable that needs to be set for Windows QEMU support:
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The following shows the environment variable that needs to be set for Windows QEMU support:
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``` text
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setx SDL_STDIO_REDIRECT=0
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```
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``` text
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setx SDL_STDIO_REDIRECT=0
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```
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You can also use the `SSHHostPort` template variable to produce a packer
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template that can be invoked by `make` in parallel:
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You can also use the `SSHHostPort` template variable to produce a packer
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template that can be invoked by `make` in parallel:
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``` json
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{
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"qemuargs": [
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[ "-netdev", "user,hostfwd=tcp::{{ .SSHHostPort }}-:22,id=forward"],
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[ "-device", "virtio-net,netdev=forward,id=net0"]
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]
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}
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```
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``` json
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{
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"qemuargs": [
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[ "-netdev", "user,hostfwd=tcp::{{ .SSHHostPort }}-:22,id=forward"],
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[ "-device", "virtio-net,netdev=forward,id=net0"]
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]
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}
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```
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`make -j 3 my-awesome-packer-templates` spawns 3 packer processes, each of which
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will bind to their own SSH port as determined by each process. This will also
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work with WinRM, just change the port forward in `qemuargs` to map to WinRM's
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default port of `5985` or whatever value you have the service set to listen on.
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`make -j 3 my-awesome-packer-templates` spawns 3 packer processes, each of which
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will bind to their own SSH port as determined by each process. This will also
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work with WinRM, just change the port forward in `qemuargs` to map to WinRM's
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default port of `5985` or whatever value you have the service set to listen on.
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- `use_backing_file` (boolean) - Only applicable when `disk_image` is `true`
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and `format` is `qcow2`, set this option to `true` to create a new QCOW2
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