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mitchellh / veewee-to-packer

A tool for converting Veewee templates into Packer templates.
http://www.packer.io
MIT License
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Does this still work / intermittent failures #26

Open rdonkin opened 7 years ago

rdonkin commented 7 years ago

I note that the last commits were in early 2014, and there aren't any more recent forks it seems.

Is this still likely to work with recent versions of Packer / Veewee?

rdonkin commented 7 years ago

At least for my use case, converting a Veewee template building a Vagrant box, it worked fine. Had to update the generated template to post-process the .ovf image into a .box file. Used latest packer, 0.11.0, and the github version of veewee-to-packer, commit ID e34d64b.

Closing this now.

rdonkin commented 7 years ago

While this did generate a working template, it turned out to be flaky - I ended up in a graphical Anaconda installer screen sometimes after reboot during the Packer process.

Generally it seems better to start with a known reliable Packer template (I used geerlingguy/packer-centos-7 which works fine), and port your veewee template's configuration and scripts across.