The value in the Name field returned by 'esxcli network vm list'
actually returns the VMs `displayName`. As such, we need to match
against `displayName` to discover the VMs 'WorldID'.
'WorldId' is ultimately used/needed as an argument in the command that
returns the VMs IP.
The ESX5 driver doesn't have a way of mapping the network name to its device name because a .vmx template uses different field names for it and so packer let's ESX handle filling this in. This patch will check to see if the driver that packer determines is missing a NetworkMapper implementation (by checking for nil). If it is, then fall back to using "nat" despite ESX not using the network type at all. This is what packer did prior to exposing the network type to the user back in version 1.1.3.
This closes issue #5916.
arizvisa: Updated icnocop's documentation to include the possible disk adapter types that one can specify.
arizvisa: Tweaked icnocop's support for the `disk_adapter_type` option to the VMWare builder that caused conflicts due to version skew.
icnocop: Updated links to the Virtual Disk Manager User's Guide PDF to open in a new window and also added the Adobe PDF icon
icnocop: Added support for vmware to specify the disk adapter type, ide or scsi (lsilogic or buslogic)
builder/vmware/{iso,vmx}:
Added the specific configuration options that get parsed.
Normalize paths when pulling them from the json template so that they'll work on Windows too.
Added some improved error checking when parsing these options.
Stash the vm's network connection type so that other steps can figure out addressing information
Modified the esx5 driver to support the new addressing logic.
Modified the template in step_create_vmx to include the new options.
builder/vmware/common:
Implemented a parser for vmware's configuration files to the vmware builder.
Modified the driver's interface to include support for resolving both guest/host hw and ip addresses
Implemented a base structure with some methods that implement these features.
Rewrote all ip and mac address dependent code to utilize these new methods.
Removed host_ip and guest_ip due to their logic being moved directly into a
base-structure used by each driver. The code was explicitly checking runtime.GOOS
instead of portably using net.Interfaces() anyways.
Updated driver_mock to support the new addressing methods
* The remotedisplay.vnc.ip vmx data key breaks ESXi, this commit prevents it
from being automatically added during VNC configuration when using the ESX5
driver.
* It can still be configured via the vmx_data section of the builder
template
Signed-off-by: Sunjay Bhatia <sbhatia@pivotal.io>
If `format` option is configured, packer exports the VM with ovftool.
website: Document about OVF Tool and `format` option.
post-processor/vsphere: Enable to use `mitchellh.vmware-esx` artifact type and OVF and OVA formats, fixes#1457.
When providing a hierarchical output_directory value like
'transient/jenkins-slave', the VM would fail to build in the CreateDisk
step. The properly created output directory would not match the location
provided to CreateDisk, since datastorePath() did not properly split such
paths. Now this case works; tested hierarchical and singular
output_directory values.
