Failed creating VirtualBox driver: exec: "VBoxManage": executable file not found in $PATH

[Neudrino]

Expected Behavior

A Virtualbox image is build on a given ISO image.

Current Behavior

Build 'virtualbox-iso' errored after 4 milliseconds 350 microseconds: Failed creating VirtualBox driver: exec: "VBoxManage": executable file not found in $PATH

Steps to Reproduce

Configure and run the following Github action .github/workflows/packer.yml:

on:
  push: null

jobs:
  packer-action:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Minimal packer configuration
        run: |
          tee packer.json << EOF
          {
            "builders": [
              {
              "type": "virtualbox-iso",
              "guest_os_type": "Ubuntu_64",
              "iso_url": "http://releases.ubuntu.com/12.04/ubuntu-12.04.5-server-amd64.iso",
              "iso_checksum": "md5:769474248a3897f4865817446f9a4a53",
              "ssh_username": "packer",
              "ssh_password": "packer",
              "shutdown_command": "echo 'packer' | sudo -S shutdown -P now",
              "post_shutdown_delay": "2m",
              "headless": true,
              "vboxmanage": [
                  [ "startvm", "{{.Name}}", "--type", "headless" ]
                ]
              }
            ]
          }

      - name: Validate Template
        uses: hashicorp/packer-github-actions@master
        with:
          command: validate
          arguments: -syntax-only
          target: packer.json
      - name: Build Artifact
        uses: hashicorp/packer-github-actions@master
        with:
          command: build
          arguments: "-on-error=abort"
          target: packer.json
        env:
          PACKER_LOG: 1

Environment

• Github runner
• Code see: https://github.com/Neudrino/magma/blob/e5066cb59483d080dd72fc1da337c4cd9acee21d/.github/workflows/build-vm-dev.yml#L50-L88
• Run see: https://github.com/Neudrino/magma/actions/runs/3091259346/jobs/5001109136

[Neudrino]

There is a job configured at https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox/actions/workflows/test-plugin-example.yml, however it was never run. It would be good, if this job could be run at least once (better regularly) to verify that the workflow and plugin is actually working as expected.

[ksatirli]

Thank you for reporting this, @Neudrino!

You should be able to use the latest version of this Action to run this builder.

Please let me know if you run into any issues with it.