Windows Hypervisor Platform (WHPX) is the Windows counterpart to HVF and
KVM. It's an operating system provided component that provides
virtualization acceleration support.
This is kind of the missing counterpart to https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/pull/6193.
QEMU 2.12 also added support for WHPX.
There's no support for libvirt on Windows so nothing was added in those
areas.
The popular QEMU for Windows distribution does not have WHPX support
built-in for legal reasons as the maintainer does not wish to use or
obtain any part of Microsoft's SDK to compile the distribution.
When using the raw image format and attempting to resize it we get the following error message:
```
WARNING: Image format was not specified for 'test.raw' and probing guessed raw.
Automatically detecting the format is dangerous for raw images, write operations on block 0 will be restricted.
Specify the 'raw' format explicitly to remove the restrictions.
```
Specifying the format will remove this warning.
Run now takes a context as well as a statebag. We'll assign the context
to the blank identifier to prevent namespace collisions. We'll let the
step authors opt-in to using the context.
`find . -iname "step_*.go" -exec gsed -i'' 's/func \(.*\)Run(/func \1Run(_ context.Context, /' {} \;`
When booting from a disk image, the Qemu builder resizes the disk to 40000
which is not a multiple of 1kB. This causes problems while booting from the image.
Updating the default disk size to 40960 fixes this issue
[A recent breaking change upstream in Golang's crypto
library](e4e2799dd7)
has broken SSH connectivity for a few builders:
```
==> qemu: Waiting for SSH to become available...
2017/05/20 16:23:58 ui: ==> qemu: Waiting for SSH to become available...
2017/05/20 16:23:58 packer: 2017/05/20 16:23:58 [INFO] Attempting SSH connection...
2017/05/20 16:23:58 packer: 2017/05/20 16:23:58 reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2017/05/20 16:23:58 packer: 2017/05/20 16:23:58 handshaking with SSH
2017/05/20 16:23:58 packer: 2017/05/20 16:23:58 handshake error: ssh: must specify HostKeyCallback
2017/05/20 16:23:58 packer: 2017/05/20 16:23:58 [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: ssh: must specify HostKeyCallback
2017/05/20 16:24:05 packer: 2017/05/20 16:24:05 [INFO] Attempting SSH connection...
2017/05/20 16:24:05 packer: 2017/05/20 16:24:05 reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2017/05/20 16:24:05 packer: 2017/05/20 16:24:05 handshaking with SSH
2017/05/20 16:24:05 packer: 2017/05/20 16:24:05 handshake error: ssh: must specify HostKeyCallback
2017/05/20 16:24:05 packer: 2017/05/20 16:24:05 [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: ssh: must specify HostKeyCallback
```
Specifying HostKeyCallback as insecure should make things work again
and would make sense for packer's use case.
If using a builder that has an http server set up for file transfer,
expose the connection info to the shell provisioner through the environment
variable PACKER_HTTP_ADDR.
Closes#2869
- Can now tune delay using PACKER_KEY_INTERVAL
- Added implementation to all of VMware and QEMU
- Removed double delay for QEMU
- Default key delay of 100ms (as before)
- Added docs to QEMU and VMware pages
In case of disk_image: true user can have raw image, but in packer
template specify qcow2 image format.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov@selfip.ru>
This option allows to set the extension of the ISO file after download.
Defaults to "iso". It makes sense for building Mac OS X guests, where the
bootable image is actually a DMG, not an ISO.
In particular, it is important for "parallels-iso" builder to set the right extension.
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