Open niwamo opened 9 months ago
Thought of a couple things to add --
First, if you want to follow my testing methodology as described above, you'll need to proxy incoming connections, as the VMRest API only listens on localhost (127.0.0.1). You can achieve this with a port proxy: netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=8697 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=8697 connectaddress=127.0.0.1
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Secondly, the WSL firewall rule I mentioned can be accomplished with: New-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Allow all WSL inbound" -Direction Inbound -InterfaceAlias "vEthernet (WSL)" -Action Allow
Finally, I added more details to my documentation updates in https://github.com/niwamo/packer-plugin-vmware
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Description
Create a new "driver" for
vmrest
, the API that ships with VMWare Workstation Pro. Due to API limitations, only the vmware-vmx builder can be implemented.Use Case(s)
Implement the vmware-vmx functionality using the API. Enables using Packer from a remote host or from a container.
Potential configuration
Already implemented and ready for a PR. See https://github.com/niwamo/packer-plugin-vmware.
I also updated /docs/builders/vmx.mdx and ran
.web-docs/scripts/compile-to-webdocs.sh
.Opening an issue for discussion prior to making the PR, as directed in the README.
The code is reasonably well-commented, and I endeavored to limit changes outside of the new driver file to the greatest extent possible. Please take a look and lmk if/when you're ready for a PR.
Potential References
If you'd like to repeat my tests:
Note that this test config requires