When debugging a build (or maintaining an existing packer file), teach `packer build -debug` how to step through individual `boot_command`s in order to triage the packer file.
```
==> vmware-iso: Typing the boot command over VNC...
==> vmware-iso: Pausing after run of step 'boot_command[0]: <enter><wait>'. Press enter to continue.
==> vmware-iso: Pausing after run of step 'boot_command[1]: <enter><wait>'. Press enter to continue.
==> vmware-iso: Pausing after run of step 'boot_command[2]: freebsd-vagrant<enter><wait>'. Press enter to continue.
==> vmware-iso: Pausing after run of step 'boot_command[3]: <down><spacebar>'. Press enter to continue. ^C
```
Prevalidates hardware resources on Linux platforms for Virtualbox and
VMware builders. This is currently only available on Linux, as enabling
for both Darwin and Windows platforms, relies on cgo bindings that would
prevent effective cross-compilation.
Packer will now fail to build and validate templates if the template is
requesting that the VM to be created would allocate more system
resources than the host system has available.
This _however_ doesn't catch parallel builds that overflow the hosts
resources, will probably still need a better error message for VM's
failing to boot in that case.
Example Outputs:
```
$ $GOPATH/bin/packer build -debug ./vmware-iso.json
Debug mode enabled. Builds will not be parallelized.
vmware-iso output will be in this color.
2 error(s) occurred:
* Unavailable Resources: RAM - Requested - 204800000MB - Available 21721MB
* Unavailable Resources: Disk - Requested - 4000000000MB - Available 76701MB
```
```
$ $GOPATH/bin/packer build -debug ./vbox-iso.json
Debug mode enabled. Builds will not be parallelized.
virtualbox-iso output will be in this color.
2 error(s) occurred:
* Unavailable Resources: RAM - Requested - 10240000MB - Available 21721MB
* Unavailable Resources: Disk - Requested - 1000000000MB - Available 76701MB
```
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.
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.
Change the default behavior from requesting a PTY when executing a
command with the ssh communicator to requesting a PTY only when
configured to do so.
Update the vmware builders to be fully backward compatible with the new
behavior.
Add configuration option to explicitly control where Packer uploads
ISO and floppy files to on ESXi hosts. The `remote_cache_datastore`
defaults to the `remote_datastore` value. The 'remote_cache_directory'
defaults to 'packer_cache', similar to the local caching capabilities.
Addresses issues with [GH-1218] and [GH-1221] where paths for uploaded
ISO and floppy files are not written to a valid location in the
datastore.
This commit fixes errors like this in the vsphere post-processor when using floppy files in the builder step:
Error: File (/var/folders/zl/57c1vmr532z_ryf1scw53_b9ycmxh7/T/packer964492999) could not be found
The configure VMX step re-adds the floppy files, so we need to configure the VMX and _then_ clean the VMX in that order.
Rickard von Essen
Charlie Vieth
Ricard Clau
Ian Duffy
Chris Bednarski
Sean Chittenden
kopernikus
Jake Champlin
Anders Quist
michael
Mark Peek
Yuya Kusakabe
Brian Dwyer
Israel Shirk
Olivier Tremblay
Mitchell Hashimoto
Marc Siegfriedt
Mitchell Hashimoto
Eric Richardson
Billie H. Cleek
Christian Groschupp
Nick Cronin
Jason A. Beranek
Shawn Neal
StefanScherer