By default the GCE firewall doen't allow WinRM connections (from the outside). Have you opened up port 5986 in the firewall? If that doesn't help can you run PACKER_LOG=1 packer build template.json and attach/gist the output?
// Rickard On 25 March 2017 at 12:02, Sachin <[email protected]> wrote: > *Hello,* > > *I am having issue with use of winrm communicator in Google Cloud, I even > tried to run packer scrip from same subnet where I am building instance in > GCE, I can connect to instance with power shell with this command, * > > > *Enter-PSSession -ComputerName [IP_ADDRESS] -UseSSL -SessionOption > (New-PSSessionOption -SkipCACheck -SkipCNCheck) -Credential $credentials* > > *So network connectivity is not problem,* > > *But packer script waits for winrm and its times out.* > > *Is any one using packer in Google cloud to build windows instance please > give me some idea of what I am doing wrong.* > > *Here is my builders section, I tried using both port 5985 and 5986. I set > time out to 300 for testing. with this new windows instance comes up but > packer never able to connect to it with winrm.* > > *"builders": [* > * {* > * "account_file": "xxxx.json",* > * "communicator": "winrm",* > * "disk_size": "80",* > * "disk_type": "pd-ssd",* > * "image_description": "xxxxxxx",* > * "image_family": "xxxxxx",* > * "image_name": "xxxxxx",* > * "instance_name": "xxxxxx",* > * "machine_type": "n1-standard-1",* > * "project_id": "xxxxxxx",* > * "source_image": "windows-server-2012-r2-dc-v20170214",* > * "type": "googlecompute",* > * "use_internal_ip": true,* > * "winrm_insecure": true,* > * "winrm_port": 5986,* > * "winrm_timeout": "300m",* > * "winrm_use_ssl": true,* > * "winrm_username": "packer",* > * "zone": "us-east1-d"* > * }* > * ],* > > -- > 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 [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/packer-tool/8a1c0d67-bb35-4ae8-a007-22ab980f795d%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/8a1c0d67-bb35-4ae8-a007-22ab980f795d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/packer-tool/CALz9Rt-0GGNirvoD6Mi9NhWyV50t%3DLdHRcGKU_T_B_kfskECgQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
