I am trying to get packer to create a qemu/kvm image. I feel like it should be fairly straightforward but my build keeps failing on ssh. Here are the relevant files
template.json:
{
"builders": [
{
"type": "qemu",
"iso_url": "/home/username/ubuntu-14.04.4-desktop-amd64.iso",
"iso_checksum": "807fa1f246b719d28d0b362fd2f31855",
"iso_checksum_type": "md5",
"shutdown_command": "/sbin/shutdown -hP now",
"ssh_username": "ubuntu",
"ssh_password": "test",
"ssh_port": 22,
"ssh_wait_timeout": "5m",
"ssh_host_port_min": 2222,
"ssh_host_port_max": 2229,
"boot_wait": "30s",
"disk_size": 20480,
"format": "raw",
"headless": true,
"accelerator": "kvm",
"http_directory": "http",
"http_port_min": 10082,
"http_port_max": 10089,
"vm_name": "ubuntu-test",
"net_device": "virtio-net",
"disk_interface": "virtio",
"boot_command": [
"<esc><wait>",
"install ",
"preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/preseed.cfg ",
"debian-installer=en_US ",
"auto ",
"locale=en_US ",
"kbd-chooser/method=us ",
"keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap=us ",
"fb=false ",
"debconf/frontend=noninteractive ",
"console-setup/ask_detect=false ",
"console-keymaps-at/keymap=us ",
"<enter><wait>"
]
}
]
}
preseed.cfg:
choose-mirror-bin mirror/http/proxy string
d-i debian-installer/framebuffer boolean false
d-i debconf/frontend select noninteractive
d-i base-installer/kernel/override-image string linux-server
d-i clock-setup/utc boolean true
d-i clock-setup/utc-auto boolean true
d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note
d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
d-i grub-installer/with_other_os boolean true
d-i netcfg/get_domain string test-domain
d-i netcfg/get_hostname string test-hostname
d-i partman-auto/method string regular
d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
d-i partman/confirm boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
d-i partman/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
d-i pkgsel/include string openssh-server
d-i pkgsel/install-language-support boolean false
d-i pkgsel/update-policy select unattended-upgrades
d-i pkgsel/upgrade select none
d-i time/zone string CET
d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
d-i user-setup/encrypt-home boolean false
tasksel tasksel/first multiselect none
d-i passwd/user-fullname string default
d-i passwd/username string ubuntu
d-i passwd/user-password password test
d-i passwd/user-password-again password test
Here is the error I get in the packer log:
2016/08/16 11:24:05 packer: 2016/08/16 11:24:05 handshaking with SSH
2016/08/16 11:24:05 packer: 2016/08/16 11:24:05 handshake error: ssh: handshake failed: read tcp 127.0.0.1:40788->127.0.0.1:2227: read: connection reset by peer
2016/08/16 11:24:05 packer: 2016/08/16 11:24:05 [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: ssh: handshake failed: read tcp 127.0.0.1:40788->127.0.0.1:2227: read: connection reset by peer
Any tips or ideas would be welcomed, thanks
