Hi, I am also facing same issue my vm is running in ESXi host and if i create vm using KVM able to create it but using packer ssh time out issue im getting. Cloud please tell me and network settings i need to change in host machine. my kickstart file serving using 10.0.2.2 this ip address.
On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:31 AM Alvaro Miranda Aguilera <[email protected]> wrote: > hello > > without packer, if you do a VM manually with this kickstart, does the > kickstart work? > > can you ssh to the vm after the reboot? > > alvaro > > > > > On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 3:22 PM Tim Bodhini <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> So, after some time and other tasks I finally managed to attach my GUI to >> the VNC ... The only thing I can report is: >> It starts the anaconda installer and returns messages like: >> - Running pre-installation scripts >> - Not asking for VNC because of an automated install >> - Not asking for VNC because text mode explicitly asked for in kickstart >> - Starting automated install ... >> after that it just repeats the dots and is timing out. I've now increased >> the timeout and will wait until I get some proper error .... >> >> And by the way: this is another try to post my ks -> >> >> #version=DEVEL >> # System authorization information >> auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 >> # Install OS instead of upgrade >> install >> # Use network installation >> url --url="http://pulp.mydomain.com/pulp/repos/stable/centos/7/base/"; >> repo --name="CentOS" --baseurl= >> http://pulp.mydomain.com/pulp/repos/stable/centos/7/base/ >> repo --name="CentOS-Updates" --baseurl= >> http://pulp.mydomain.com/pulp/repos/stable/centos/7/updates/ >> # Use text mode install >> text >> # Firewall configuration >> firewall --disabled >> firstboot --disable >> ignoredisk --only-use=vda >> # Keyboard layouts >> # old format: keyboard us >> # new format: >> keyboard --vckeymap=us --xlayouts='' >> # System language >> lang en_US.UTF-8 >> >> # Network information >> network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --ipv6=auto --activate >> network --hostname=localhost.localdomain >> # Reboot after installation >> reboot >> # Root password >> rootpw SomePass >> # SELinux configuration >> selinux --disabled >> # System services >> services --enabled="network,sshd/postfix,chronyd" >> # Do not configure the X Window System >> skipx >> # System timezone >> timezone Etc/UTC >> # System bootloader configuration >> bootloader --append="nomodeset crashkernel=auto" --location=mbr >> --driveorder="vda" --boot-drive=vda >> # Clear the Master Boot Record >> zerombr >> # Partition clearing information >> clearpart --all --initlabel >> # Disk partitioning information >> part /boot --fstype="ext2" --ondisk=vda --size=512 >> --fsoptions="relatime,nodev" >> part / --fstype="xfs" --ondisk=vda --size=9487 >> >> %pre >> bootdrive=vda >> >> if [ -f "/dev/$bootdrive" ] ; then >> exec < /dev/tty3 > /dev/tty3 >> chvt 3 >> echo "ERROR: Drive device does not exist at /dev/$bootdrive!" >> sleep 5 >> halt -f >> fi >> >> cat >/tmp/kspre.cfg <<CFG >> zerombr >> bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=$bootdrive --append="nomodeset" >> clearpart --all --initlabel >> part /boot --ondrive=$bootdrive --fstype ext2 >> --fsoptions="relatime,nodev" --size=512 >> part / --ondrive=$bootdrive --fstype xfs --size 1 --grow >> CFG >> >> %end >> >> %packages >> acpid >> at >> chrony >> cronie-noanacron >> crontabs >> kexec-tools >> logrotate >> mailx >> mlocate >> net-tools >> openssh-clients >> openssh-server >> postfix >> rsync >> tmpwatch >> vixie-cron >> wget >> which >> yum >> yum-cron >> yum-utils >> -aic94xx-firmware >> -atmel-firmware >> -bfa-firmware >> -biosdevname >> -ipw2100-firmware >> -ipw2200-firmware >> -ivtv-firmware >> -iwl100-firmware >> -iwl1000-firmware >> -iwl3945-firmware >> -iwl4965-firmware >> -iwl5000-firmware >> -iwl5150-firmware >> -iwl6000-firmware >> -iwl6000g2a-firmware >> -iwl6050-firmware >> -kernel-firmware >> -libertas-usb8388-firmware >> -prelink >> -ql2100-firmware >> -ql2200-firmware >> -ql23xx-firmware >> -ql2400-firmware >> -ql2500-firmware >> -rt61pci-firmware >> -rt73usb-firmware >> -sendmail >> -xorg-x11-drv-ati-firmware >> -zd1211-firmware >> >> %end >> >> %addon com_redhat_kdump --enable --reserve-mb='auto' >> >> %end >> >> On Monday, 7 January 2019 14:39:57 UTC+1, Rickard von Essen wrote: >>> >>> You can install "vncsnapshot" on the machine running Packer and capture >>> some images and transfer back. Most likely you kickstart doesn't complete >>> correctly, the installed OS doesn't startup correctly etc. Or your SSH >>> credentials are incorrect. >>> >>> It can also be an idea to run the build locally first to get it >>> working properly, since debugging locally is much simpler. >>> >>> And by the way you can tunnel VNC over SSH. >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 2:17 PM Tim Bücher <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> So, I'm actually working behind a firewall and am not able to connect >>>> to the vnc. Is there any other way how to debug this? >>>> >>>> Another little thing: I just posted my centos7-ks.cfg here and the >>>> message was deleted just a few minutes ago. why though? >>>> >>>> -- >>>> This mailing list is governed under the HashiCorp Community Guidelines >>>> - https://www.hashicorp.com/community-guidelines.html. 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