diff --git a/communicator/ssh/communicator.go b/communicator/ssh/communicator.go
index a7d0b9a0f..646ffbca4 100644
--- a/communicator/ssh/communicator.go
+++ b/communicator/ssh/communicator.go
@@ -41,11 +41,11 @@ func (c *comm) Start(cmd string) (remote *packer.RemoteCommand, err error) {
 
 	// Setup the remote command
 	remote = &packer.RemoteCommand{
-		stdin,
-		stdout,
-		stderr,
-		false,
-		-1,
+		Stdin: stdin,
+		Stdout: stdout,
+		Stderr: stderr,
+		Exited: false,
+		ExitStatus: -1,
 	}
 
 	log.Printf("starting remote command: %s", cmd)
diff --git a/packer/rpc/communicator.go b/packer/rpc/communicator.go
index b16c94e6f..77e7c4bf5 100644
--- a/packer/rpc/communicator.go
+++ b/packer/rpc/communicator.go
@@ -80,11 +80,11 @@ func (c *communicator) Start(cmd string) (rc *packer.RemoteCommand, err error) {
 
 	// Build the response object using the streams we created
 	rc = &packer.RemoteCommand{
-		stdinC,
-		stdoutC,
-		stderrC,
-		false,
-		-1,
+		Stdin: stdinC,
+		Stdout: stdoutC,
+		Stderr: stderrC,
+		Exited: false,
+		ExitStatus: -1,
 	}
 
 	// In a goroutine, we wait for the process to exit, then we set
diff --git a/packer/rpc/communicator_test.go b/packer/rpc/communicator_test.go
index 5026e0c44..e2edd7c69 100644
--- a/packer/rpc/communicator_test.go
+++ b/packer/rpc/communicator_test.go
@@ -39,11 +39,11 @@ func (t *testCommunicator) Start(cmd string) (*packer.RemoteCommand, error) {
 	stderr, t.startErr = io.Pipe()
 
 	rc := &packer.RemoteCommand{
-		stdin,
-		stdout,
-		stderr,
-		false,
-		0,
+		Stdin: stdin,
+		Stdout: stdout,
+		Stderr: stderr,
+		Exited: false,
+		ExitStatus: 0,
 	}
 
 	t.startExited = &rc.Exited