packer-cn/CHANGELOG.md at 695d3ea9f5570267725628f875ba677760cafc01

0.2.0 (unreleased)

FEATURES:

VirtualBox and VMware can now have floppy_files specified to attach floppy disks when booting. This allows for unattended Windows installs.

IMPROVEMENTS:

BUG FIXES:

core: UI messages are now properly prefixed with spaces again.
virtualbox: "paused" doesn't mean the VM is stopped, improving shutdown detection.

FEATURES:

"file" uploader will upload files from the machine running Packer to the remote machine.
VirtualBox guest additions URL and checksum can now be specified, allowing the VirtualBox builder to have the ability to be used completely offline.

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: If SCP is not available, a more descriptive error message is shown telling the user. [GH-127]
shell: Scripts are now executed by default according to their shebang, not with /bin/sh. [GH-105]
shell: You can specify what interpreter you want inline scripts to run with inline_shebang.
virtualbox: Delete the packer-made SSH port forwarding prior to exporting the VM.

BUG FIXES:

core: Non-200 response codes on downloads now show proper errors. [GH-141]
amazon-ebs: SSH handshake is retried. [GH-130]
vagrant: The BuildName template propery works properly in the output path.
vagrant: Properly configure the provider-specific post-processors so things like vagrantfile_template work. [GH-129]
vagrant: Close filehandles when copying files so Windows can rename files. [GH-100]

FEATURES:

virtualbox: Can now be built headless with the "Headless" option. [GH-99]
virtualbox: and codes for waiting 5 and 10 seconds during the boot sequence, respectively. [GH-97]
vmware: Can now be built headless with the "Headless" option. [GH-99]
vmware: and codes for waiting 5 and 10 seconds during the boot sequence, respectively. [GH-97]
vmware: Disks are defragmented and compacted at the end of the build. This can be disabled using "skip_compaction"

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Template syntax errors now show line and character number. [GH-56]
amazon-ebs: Access key and secret access key default to environmental variables. [GH-40]
virtualbox: Send password for keyboard-interactive auth [GH-121]
vmware: Send password for keyboard-interactive auth [GH-121]

BUG FIXES:

vmware: Wait until shut down cleans up properly to avoid corrupt disk files [GH-111]

FEATURES:

The VMware builder can now upload the VMware tools for you into the VM. This is opt-in, you must specify the tools_upload_flavor option. See the website for more documentation.

IMPROVEMENTS:

BUG FIXES:

core: More plugin server fixes that avoid hangs on OS X 10.7 [GH-87]
vagrant: AWS boxes will keep the AMI artifact around [GH-55]
virtualbox: More robust version parsing for uploading guest additions. [GH-69]
virtualbox: Output dir and VM name defaults depend on build name, avoiding collisions. [GH-91]
vmware: Output dir and VM name defaults depend on build name, avoiding collisions. [GH-91]

IMPROVEMENTS:

core: Template doesn't validate if there are no builders.
vmware: Delete any VMware files in the VM that aren't necessary for it to function.

BUG FIXES:

core: Plugin servers consider a port in use if there is any error listening to it. This fixes I18n issues and Windows. [GH-58]
amazon-ebs: Sleep between checking instance state to avoid RequestLimitExceeded [GH-50]
vagrant: Rename VirtualBox ovf to "box.ovf" [GH-64]
vagrant: VMware boxes have the correct provider type.
vmware: Properly populate files in artifact so that the Vagrant post-processor works. [GH-63]

BUG FIXES:

core: plugins listen explicitly on 127.0.0.1, fixing odd hangs. [GH-37]
core: fix race condition on verifying checksum of large ISOs which could cause panics [GH-52]
virtualbox: boot_wait defaults to "10s" rather than 0. [GH-44]
virtualbox: if http_port_min and max are the same, it will no longer panic [GH-53]
vmware: boot_wait defaults to "10s" rather than 0. [GH-44]
vmware: if http_port_min and max are the same, it will no longer panic [GH-53]