Like the 'puppet-masterless' and 'puppet-server' provisioners (and
unlike the 'chef-solo' and 'chef-client' provisioners), the
'ansible-local' currently requires Ansible to be present on the
provisioned image.
The relevant issue to add an install option to the provisioner is:
https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/issues/2010
Until then, a notice similar to the 'puppet-masterless' and
'puppet-server' ones is added.
Changed the language of the vmware-iso floppy documentation to make is clearer that the deprecated ks=floppy syntax is a result of changes to Anaconda.
The vmware-iso example configuration to load a Kickstart configuration file off of a mounted floppy image is not valid for recent versions of Linux including RHEL7. The version of Anaconda used no longer supports ks=floppy.
This commit adds an alternative syntax that users can use with more recent version of Linux to source a Kickstart file from a mounted floppy image.
https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_VM_Images does not
recommends to dd zero file and deletes it, but in case of enabling
discards and qcow2 image we can recreate qcow2 file with less used
space.
Also qemu-img able to enable compression for qcow2 files, that
sometimes may be useful because it natively supported by qemu.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Tolstov <[email protected]>
If `format` option is configured, packer exports the VM with ovftool.
website: Document about OVF Tool and `format` option.
post-processor/vsphere: Enable to use `mitchellh.vmware-esx` artifact type and OVF and OVA formats, fixes#1457.