vmware mac address within resetved range

#Vmware mac address within resetved range install#

Then take that MAC and on your network reserve an ip address, say 192.168.0.127, for that MAC. Note if you choose an address that ESXi doesn’t like, it will tell you - so if you are getting build failures look at ESXi - it will say “invalid MAC” when attempting the vm creation. So look at a couple of running vm’s and just slightly change the last two digits or so of the MAC address and make that your MAC for packer builds. below, but as this post is to highlight the things that may not be working for you, here are the important parts: ip address issues / ssh waiting/timeoutĮSXi will let you create any MAC address within it’s allowed range and will run with it. There is simply less comprehensive documentation available. Notes on the autoinstall configuration file format for Ubuntu 20.04īesides the IP address issue, the other primary issue was the changes Ubuntu had made to their autoinstall format for 20.04 - using subiquity instead of the previous debian installer.Building Virtual Machines with Packer on ESXi 6.Tl dr a mix of a fake mac address in esxi with a static reservation on my network and then manually setting packer to look for ssh at a specific address, not the address it started with. I got around this using a few mechanisms which did work, but may not work in every environment.

#Vmware mac address within resetved range install#

My primary issue with packer and esxi, for which there are many related bug reports/issues posted with no obvious solutions, is that the IP address would change between starting packer build and after the install would reboot before it completed building - hence the dreaded “Waiting for SSH” ( example) and the more dreaded “SSH timeout” ( example). I’ll highlight a few of the major issues and then post what did work. Many of them, however, are for vsphere and the ones that are for esxi I couldn’t get to work through completion. There are many posts out there discussing packer and ubuntu’s new auto install syntax for 20.04. This turned out to be a much longer process than I would have hoped, so I wanted to capture a few of my notes.