Salt provisioner for Windows VM running on Linux Host fails (path separator issues)

[hc-github-team-packer]

This issue was originally opened by @RiccardoBoettcher in https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/issues/4585 and has been migrated to this repository. The original issue description is below.

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When using the salt-masterless provisioner for a Windows target VM (on a linux host), the paths generated by the provisioner are not platform specific (for example mkdir command recevices /srv/salt/states, but should be \srv\salt\states.

Additionally the *unix specific commands for directory and file creation/management are used on Windows. This is another source of trouble.

• version: packer v0.12.2

• Host platform: Linux / Fedora 25

• guest: Windows 8.1

• communicator: winrm

• builder virtualbox iso

• provisioner: salt-masterless

• Debug log output: https://gist.github.com/RiccardoBoettcher/ed21d6f8b0fae658f04ec025be82eeb7

• template: see gist Difficult to provide as providing a packer based setup of Windows VM (using virtual box) requires a lot of setup effort. But this issues should be easy fixable by verifying the full-qualified path / files names being created a correct for all supported platforms. It should be possible to ensure this with tests.

Solution proposal: The problem might by the use of filepath.ToSlash() instead of filepath.FromSlash(). The later will inject the OS specific path separator character.

[nywilken]

With the archival of this repository all open issues will be marked as read-only. If you wish to further discuss this plugin or any of its open issues we invite you to open a discussion on the Packer community forum.

More details on the plugin archiving process for this provisioner can be found on the Plans to Archive Unmaintained Packer Provisioner Plugins blog post.