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 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
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.
Ensure that all builders include FloppyDirectories in the StepCreateFloppy options.
Changed the way the unit-tests in common/step_create_floppy_test work to use the static test-fixtures directory instead of creating the paths dynamically.
Removed a duplicate line of documentation from parallels-pvm.html.md that occurred during rebasing.
Moved the support for recursive paths from the floppy_files keyword to the new floppy_contents keyword.
Shifted some of the code around to add better logging of what's actually being copied.
Added a couple of unit-tests for the new floppy_contents implementation.
Ensured that all files that were being added were also being included in state.FilesAdded so that the older unit-tests will work.
This commit allows for a user configurable VNC bind IP to be used for
QEMU.
By default this will be 127.0.0.1, alternatively, a user can use
0.0.0.0 which will bind to all interfaces.
This pull request should satisfy concerns of #3570 and #3559. It is
also in-line with the functionality provided by #3566 and #3565
Signed-off-by: Ian Duffy <ian@ianduffy.ie>
When debugging a build (or maintaining an existing packer template), teach `packer build -debug` how to step through individual `boot_command`s in order to triage the packer template.
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_VM_Images does not
recommends to dd zero file and deletes it, but in case of enabling
discards and qcow2 image we can recreate qcow2 file with less used
space.
Also qemu-img able to enable compression for qcow2 files, that
sometimes may be useful because it natively supported by qemu.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov@selfip.ru>
The ISO builders (parallels, qemu, virtualbox, and vmware) had too
much common code which needed to be maintained separately. This change
moves that code to a common ISO configuration.
I exposed TargetPath as a config file option "target_path". I don't like
the name, but it follows the naming convention. The purpose of TargetPath
stands unmodified, and it enables a fair amount of customization.
Enabling discards for disk can greatly minimize disk size then user
inside vm use fstrim command or trim/discard unneded blocks.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Tolstov <v.tolstov@selfip.ru>
Once we have produced a qemu VM, we now have the option of using
the vagrant post-processor to create a .box file that can be used with
the vagrant-libvirt plugin.
This uses the new State method of the Artifact API to get necessary
information from the builder.
On CentOS7, ``pc-1.0'' qemu-kvm machine type are not supported.
Supported machines are:
none empty machine
pc RHEL 7.0.0 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0)
pc-i440fx-rhel7.0.0 RHEL 7.0.0 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
rhel6.5.0 RHEL 6.5.0 PC
rhel6.4.0 RHEL 6.4.0 PC
rhel6.3.0 RHEL 6.3.0 PC
rhel6.2.0 RHEL 6.2.0 PC
rhel6.1.0 RHEL 6.1.0 PC
rhel6.0.0 RHEL 6.0.0 PC
q35 RHEL-7.0.0 PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-rhel7.0.0)
pc-q35-rhel7.0.0 RHEL-7.0.0 PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
* Using 'tcg' as accelerator for qemu-system allows packer to run in a
virtual machine as no kvm or xen support is needed.
* Also document the default behavior if no accelerator is given in the
documentation.
On some systems the default Qemu binary name of qemu-system-x86_64
isn't appropriate. So expose the binary name as a configurable item,
allowing the user to set it to something more appropriate if they need
to.
Megan Marsh
Vasiliy Tolstov
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Adrien Delorme
Matt Coleman
Matthew Hooker
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Vasiliy Tolstov
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James Bishopp
Mark Peek
Olivier Tremblay
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Mitchell Hashimoto
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Julian Phillips
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