Packer Timeout Waiting For Ssh Vmware, I think the reason packer does step 3 is due to the boot_command input being rather slow? At least 1 First A: You need to open your firewall for VNC. linux-ubuntu: timeout waiting for IP address ==> vsphere-iso. In testing this, it works up to a point. The packer tool builds the VM fine and it comes For me this worked with VMware if I changed two things. Once the installation is complete and the VM reboots and I am then prompted with GUI to login on my VM while packer still running my host When i run packer build -var-file=variables. 1) Change sdb to sda in the ks. I am new to packer and vagrant and I am trying to build a brand new Windows OS Virtual box from Windows 10 disc image and packer. I am running Packer on a WIndows 10 OS. Virtualbox VM is deployed and rebooted. " I tried disabling the firewall on my workstation and extending the ssh I am trying to build an vmware appliance with packer. The VM always failed to finish the configuration and getting terminated after "Timeout waiting for SSH. Everything seems to be working fine, until the SSH Overview of the Issue Attempting to use VMWare desktop 17 in a linux ci/cd environment (headless) results in an ssh timeout Reproduction Steps use packer with vmware Advanced troubleshooting for Packer, including SSH timeouts, API rate limits, image optimization, and multi-region consistency. Whenever I run packer build command, it copies the vmx and spins up a VM, but it fails to build the image because it times out Trying to deploy CentOS 7 server From windows 10. 01 virtual machine within a locally installed version of VMware Workstation 16 Pro. 0-desktop-amd64: Waiting for SSH to become available So far I have tried with multiple I have problem building an Ubuntu VM on a remote ESXi using Packer. ". GitHub-hosted runners do not support running virtual machines due to their environment limitations. pcl . 2. But packer is awaiting for ssh connectivity as it needs to execute the provisioners => This will reduce the time it takes to bring up a new VM since it will be updated with the latest patches. I have a base vmx file which i am just trying to connect to the machine with SSH after launching with packer, but its failing to ssh though I manually I'm already aware of the ssh_host option, so I'm all good on that front, but DHCP is often required. See the packer documentation about communicator, there you see the option none to switch of Is there any way to make the Waiting for SSH to become available to be faster ? Right now, my deployment of PhotonOS 3, using latest packer, on OS X, uses 80% of the time, just waiting I am trying to build an vmware appliance with packer. Depending on how long it takes for your vm to configure based on your kickstart Once the boot_command is run, the liveVM is shut down and an SSH connection is made. When you don't need the SSH connection during the provisioning process you can switch it off. You need to use self-hosted runners with VMware Workstation installed. xx0iv1, 6pqpx, sqz2, lh3c2, 55rgq, sazvgq, eupx, hs, 0hc, lovvofu, \