vsphere-iso using ESXi 7.0.0 and CentOS 8

[asaf]

Hey,
I'm trying to build a CentOS v8 on ESXi 7 hypervisor,
Everything is provisioned right but at the end of the process I see the error:

Build 'vsphere-iso' errored: ServerFaultCode: The operation is not supported on the object.

This seems to be an ESXi error. any clue?

full log

==> vsphere-iso: Set boot order...
==> vsphere-iso: Power on VM...
==> vsphere-iso: Waiting 10s for boot...
==> vsphere-iso: Typing boot command...
==> vsphere-iso: Waiting for IP...
==> vsphere-iso: IP address: 192.168.24.136
==> vsphere-iso: Using ssh communicator to connect: 192.168.24.136
==> vsphere-iso: Waiting for SSH to become available...
==> vsphere-iso: Connected to SSH!
==> vsphere-iso: Provisioning with shell script: /var/folders/h2/nnw7l4kx769ghtk1yrtp07d80000gn/T/packer-shell280388230
    vsphere-iso: total 28
    vsphere-iso: dr-xr-x---.  2 root root  137 May 16 15:05 .
    vsphere-iso: dr-xr-xr-x. 17 root root  224 May 16 15:00 ..
    vsphere-iso: -rw-------.  1 root root 1773 May 16 15:05 anaconda-ks.cfg
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   18 May 11  2019 .bash_logout
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  176 May 11  2019 .bash_profile
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  176 May 11  2019 .bashrc
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  100 May 11  2019 .cshrc
    vsphere-iso: -rw-------.  1 root root 3031 May 16 15:05 original-ks.cfg
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  129 May 11  2019 .tcshrc
==> vsphere-iso: Shutting down VM...
==> vsphere-iso: Deleting Floppy drives...
==> vsphere-iso: Eject CD-ROM drives...
==> vsphere-iso: Convert VM into template...
==> vsphere-iso: Provisioning step had errors: Running the cleanup provisioner, if present...
==> vsphere-iso: Power off VM...
==> vsphere-iso: Destroying VM...
Build 'vsphere-iso' errored: ServerFaultCode: The operation is not supported on the object.

[VladRassokhin]

Any chance your provision script shuts down VM?
ESXi prohibits powering off powered off VM (weird, but still).
Try packer version 1.5.6 with hashicorp/packer#9095 merged.

[VladRassokhin]

Also it's better to open issues in packer issue tracker: https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues

[asaf]

@VladRassokhin thanks for answering,

What I see is:

vsphere-iso: output will be in this color.

==> vsphere-iso: Creating VM...
==> vsphere-iso: Customizing hardware...
==> vsphere-iso: Mounting ISO images...
==> vsphere-iso: Set boot order...
==> vsphere-iso: Power on VM...
==> vsphere-iso: Waiting 10s for boot...
==> vsphere-iso: Typing boot command...
==> vsphere-iso: Waiting for IP...

Then CentOS kickstart runs, perform installation where its last line is reboot --eject.
Once the VM completes the reboot (post installment) I see the login prompt and then Packer continue with:

==> vsphere-iso: IP address: 192.168.24.136
==> vsphere-iso: Using ssh communicator to connect: 192.168.24.136
==> vsphere-iso: Waiting for SSH to become available...
==> vsphere-iso: Connected to SSH!
==> vsphere-iso: Provisioning with shell script: /var/folders/h2/nnw7l4kx769ghtk1yrtp07d80000gn/T/packer-shell161139403
    vsphere-iso: total 28
    vsphere-iso: dr-xr-x---.  2 root root  137 May 19 16:40 .
    vsphere-iso: dr-xr-xr-x. 17 root root  224 May 19 16:35 ..
    vsphere-iso: -rw-------.  1 root root 1730 May 19 16:40 anaconda-ks.cfg
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root   18 May 11  2019 .bash_logout
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  176 May 11  2019 .bash_profile
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  176 May 11  2019 .bashrc
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  100 May 11  2019 .cshrc
    vsphere-iso: -rw-------.  1 root root 3032 May 19 16:40 original-ks.cfg
    vsphere-iso: -rw-r--r--.  1 root root  129 May 11  2019 .tcshrc
==> vsphere-iso: Shutting down VM...
==> vsphere-iso: Deleting Floppy drives...
==> vsphere-iso: Eject CD-ROM drives...
==> vsphere-iso: Convert VM into template...
==> vsphere-iso: Provisioning step had errors: Running the cleanup provisioner, if present...
==> vsphere-iso: Power off VM...
==> vsphere-iso: Destroying VM...
Build 'vsphere-iso' errored: ServerFaultCode: The operation is not supported on the object.

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> vsphere-iso: ServerFaultCode: The operation is not supported on the object.

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

There is no extra reboot once the VM is up, so I'm not sure what's happening,

I tried to build packer from master but there has been configuration changes so now everything got broken, so I'll have to wait with this.

Thanks,

Asaf.