Failed to retrieve the preconfigureation file

[johncosta]

Hello, I'm running into an error when generating vbox and vmfusion images from a veewee definition file converted by veewee-to-packer. I'm getting "Failed to retrieve the preconfigureation file" errors from both applications during the installation process when running packer with the converted template.json file. Using veewee, the VM is created successfully for this definition.

Has anyone else encountered this? Is there a way to work around it?

Steps to reproduce what I'm seeing:

1. Generate the template.json and other artifacts

veewee-to-packer /full/path/to/veewee/templates/ubuntu-12.04.2-server-amd64-netboot/definition.rb

This generates a template.json file successfully (see below #template.json).

2. Modify the provisioners section of the template.json file to have the full path of for the scripts listed. This is related to Make paths in templates relative to the template #54

3. Modify each builder definition to include an "iso_md5" key/value pair.

"iso_md5": "1278936cb0ee9d9a32961dd7743fa75c",

4. Now use packer to build the images from the new template.json file:

./packer build /full/path/to/veewee/output/template.json

# template.json

{
  "provisioners": [
    {
      "type": "shell",
      "scripts": [
        "scripts/postinstall.sh"
      ],
      "override": {
        "virtualbox": {
          "execute_command": "echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S sh '{{.Path}}'"
        },
        "vmware": {
          "execute_command": "echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S sh '{{.Path}}'"
        }
      }
    }
  ],
  "builders": [
    {
      "type": "virtualbox",
      "boot_command": [
        "<esc><wait>",
        "linux noapic preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg <wait>",
        "debian-installer=en_US auto locale=en_US kbd-chooser/method=us <wait>",
        "hostname={{ .Name }} <wait>",
        "fb=false debconf/frontend=noninteractive <wait>",
        "keyboard-configuration/layout=USA keyboard-configuration/variant=USA console-setup/ask_detect=false<wait>",
        "console-setup/ask_detect=false console-setup/modelcode=pc105 console-setup/layoutcode=us <wait>",
        "initrd=initrd.gz -- <enter><wait>"
      ],
      "boot_wait": "10s",
      "disk_size": 10140,
      "guest_os_type": "Ubuntu_64",
      "http_directory": "http",
      "iso_checksum": "1278936cb0ee9d9a32961dd7743fa75c",
      "iso_md5": "1278936cb0ee9d9a32961dd7743fa75c",
      "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
      "iso_url": "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso",
      "ssh_username": "vagrant",
      "ssh_password": "vagrant",
      "ssh_port": 22,
      "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
      "shutdown_command": "echo 'shutdown -P now' > shutdown.sh; echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S sh 'shutdown.sh'",
      "guest_additions_path": "VBoxGuestAdditions_{{.Version}}.iso",
      "virtualbox_version_file": ".vbox_version",
      "vboxmanage": [
        [
          "modifyvm",
          "{{.Name}}",
          "--memory",
          "1024"
        ],
        [
          "modifyvm",
          "{{.Name}}",
          "--cpus",
          "1"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "type": "vmware",
      "boot_command": [
        "<esc><wait>",
        "linux noapic preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg <wait>",
        "debian-installer=en_US auto locale=en_US kbd-chooser/method=us <wait>",
        "hostname={{ .Name }} <wait>",
        "fb=false debconf/frontend=noninteractive <wait>",
        "keyboard-configuration/layout=USA keyboard-configuration/variant=USA console-setup/ask_detect=false<wait>",
        "console-setup/ask_detect=false console-setup/modelcode=pc105 console-setup/layoutcode=us <wait>",
        "initrd=initrd.gz -- <enter><wait>"
      ],
      "boot_wait": "10s",
      "disk_size": 10140,
      "guest_os_type": "ubuntu-64",
      "http_directory": "http",
      "iso_checksum": "1278936cb0ee9d9a32961dd7743fa75c",
      "iso_md5": "1278936cb0ee9d9a32961dd7743fa75c",
      "iso_checksum_type": "md5",
      "iso_url": "http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/mini.iso",
      "ssh_username": "vagrant",
      "ssh_password": "vagrant",
      "ssh_port": 22,
      "ssh_wait_timeout": "10000s",
      "shutdown_command": "echo 'shutdown -P now' > shutdown.sh; echo 'vagrant'|sudo -S sh 'shutdown.sh'",
      "vmx_data": {
        "memsize": "1024",
        "numvcpus": "1",
        "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1"
      }
    }
  ]
}

[mitchellh]

The http_directory is incorrect since it is relative to where the command is run from, as well.

There is another issue to make this nicer, #54

[mitchellh]

Oh also, you don't need iso_md5. That is pre-0.2.0.

[johncosta]

Ok, thank you for the feedback. I'll upgrade, make the additional adjustments and try again.

Thanks!

[Iegend]

Hello
how to fix the problem?

[epcim]

@Legend in my case - very similar issue - turn off the firewall