Is packer making it to the "provisioners" stage? If so, and if you know the path to the file you want, you could try using the `direction` parameter of the "file" provisioner to download it.
{ "type": "file", "source": "/tmp/manifest.log", "destination": "./manifest.log", "direction": "download" } https://www.packer.io/docs/provisioners/file.html#direction -Loren On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 12:46:03 PM UTC-4, Bruno Vernay wrote: > > The VirtualBox forums are asking for logs and I have a hard time to get > them since Packer clean up everything. > > I ended up doing "tail -f VBMachines/my-vm/Logs/VBox.log" but maybe there > is a better way? > > The --debug step-by-step is not an option since there is a timing issue > and I don't reproduce the problem if I introduce long delays. > > Also I have logs up to the shutdown I guess, but how could I get the > post_manage logs ??? > Is there a do not clean up option ?? > > Thanks > -- This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. Behavior in violation of those guidelines may result in your removal from this mailing list. GitHub Issues: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues IRC: #packer-tool on Freenode --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Packer" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to packer-tool+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/1377a7e3-adf9-4a72-bfb7-db24d239320b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.