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  • 1.  Packer vsphere-iso plugin

    Posted Jun 08, 2021 01:31 PM

    Hi, Not sure this right forum or not for my issue but would be happy if it can be redirected to the correct one.

    I am trying to create packer image for automating the VM creation by using vsphere iso but when I run packer init , it says 'no release version found for the github.com/hashicorp/vsphere plugin matching the constraint(s): ">= 0.0.1' , I am calling highlighted source from packer template.

    Below is the required plugin block which I have written in packer config file.

    packer {
    required_plugins {
    vsphere = {
    version = ">= 0.0.1"
    source = "github.com/hashicorp/vsphere"
    }
    }
    }

    Also tried to copy the plugin file manually in required location and build it but it get fails fail with below error message.

    PS C:\packer\Windows_base> packer build .\windows2019.json.pkr.hcl
    vsphere-iso.autogenerated_1: output will be in this color.

    ==> vsphere-iso.autogenerated_1: Creating VM...
    Build 'vsphere-iso.autogenerated_1' errored after 993 milliseconds 638 microseconds: error creating vm: resource pool 'CRL IMP CLUSTER/Resources/Build' not found

    ==> Wait completed after 994 milliseconds 853 microseconds

    ==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
    --> vsphere-iso.autogenerated_1: error creating vm: resource pool 'CRL IMP CLUSTER/Resources/Build' not found

     

    Below is the plugin downloaded and copied on the packer plugin directory.

    https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-vsphere/releases/tag/v0.0.1/packer-plugin-vsphere_v0.0.1_x5.0_windows_amd64.zip

     

    Early response appreciated.