By default, Packer will symlink, download or copy image files to the Packer cache into a "`hash($iso_url+$iso_checksum).$iso_target_extension`" file. Packer uses [hashicorp/go-getter](https://github.com/hashicorp/go-getter) in file mode in order to perform a download. go-getter supports the following protocols: * Local files * Git * Mercurial * HTTP * Amazon S3 Examples: go-getter can guess the checksum type based on `iso_checksum` length, and it is also possible to specify the checksum type. In JSON: ```json "iso_checksum": "946a6077af6f5f95a51f82fdc44051c7aa19f9cfc5f737954845a6050543d7c2", "iso_url": "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" ``` ```json "iso_checksum": "file:ubuntu.org/..../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso.sum", "iso_url": "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" ``` ```json "iso_checksum": "file://./shasums.txt", "iso_url": "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" ``` ```json "iso_checksum": "file:./shasums.txt", "iso_url": "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" ``` In HCL2: ```hcl iso_checksum = "946a6077af6f5f95a51f82fdc44051c7aa19f9cfc5f737954845a6050543d7c2" iso_url = "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" ``` ```hcl iso_checksum = "file:ubuntu.org/..../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso.sum" iso_url = "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" ``` ```hcl iso_checksum = "file://./shasums.txt" iso_url = "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" ``` ```hcl iso_checksum = "file:./shasums.txt", iso_url = "ubuntu.org/.../ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64.iso" ```