@olivierlambert i'm using a ova import with UEFI comming from virtualbox, folowed all previous option and ddocumentation and still can't get my VM to boot. It's stuck with black screen and no network or whatever informations. Using this packer template to build the VM :
{
"variables": {
"vm_name": "mjolmir-base",
"cpu": "2",
"ram_size": "2048",
"disk_size": "5000",
"iso_url": "ubuntu-18.04.5-server-amd64.iso",
"iso_checksum_type": "sha1",
"iso_checksum": "c5dc820b3b46ccdd94bb1568715852ea3bf772a4",
"username" : "vagrant",
"password" : "vagrant"
},
"builders": [
{
"vm_name":"{{user `vm_name`}}",
"type": "virtualbox-iso",
"format": "ova",
"output_directory": "./data",
"boot_wait": "5s",
"disk_size": "{{user `disk_size`}}",
"headless": true,
"guest_additions_mode":"disable",
"http_directory": "./http/",
"iso_url": "{{user `iso_url`}}",
"iso_checksum": "{{user `iso_checksum`}}",
"communicator":"ssh",
"ssh_username": "{{user `username`}}",
"ssh_password": "{{user `password`}}",
"ssh_timeout": "4h",
"shutdown_command": "echo 'vagrant' | sudo -S -E shutdown -P now",
"boot_command": [
"e<down><down><down><down><down><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
"linux /install/vmlinuz<wait>",
" auto<wait>",
" console-setup/ask_detect=false<wait>",
" console-setup/layoutcode=us<wait>",
" console-setup/modelcode=pc105<wait>",
" root=/dev/sda",
" debconf/frontend=noninteractive<wait>",
" debian-installer=fr_FR<wait>",
" vga=normal fb=false<wait>",
" kbd-chooser/method=fr<wait>",
" keyboard-configuration/layout=FR<wait>",
" keyboard-configuration/variant=FR<wait>",
" locale=fr_FR<wait>",
" netcfg/get_domain=localdomain<wait>",
" netcfg/get_hostname=mjolmir<wait>",
" grub-installer/bootdev=/dev/sda<wait>",
" noapic<wait>",
" preseed/url=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/http/18.04/preseed-cloud-init.cfg",
" -- <wait><enter>",
" initrd /install/initrd.gz<wait>",
"<f10>"
],
"guest_os_type": "Ubuntu_64",
"firmware":"efi",
"iso_interface": "sata",
"vboxmanage": [
[
"modifyvm","{{.Name}}","--memory","{{user `ram_size`}}"
],
[
"modifyvm","{{.Name}}","--cpus","{{user `cpu`}}"
],
[
"modifyvm","{{.Name}}","--firmware","EFI"
]
]
}],
"provisioners": [{
"type": "shell",
"execute_command": "echo 'vagrant' | sudo -S -E sh {{.Path}}",
"scripts": [
"./script/update.sh",
"./script/cloud-init.sh",
"./script/cleanup.sh"
]
}],
"post-processors": [
{
"keep_input_artifact": true,
"output": "../../{{.Provider}}/mjolmir.box",
"type": "vagrant"
}
]
}
with provisioning script :
#!/bin/sh
#Disable conflict service
systemctl stop apt-daily.service
systemctl kill --kill-who=all apt-daily.service
wait until `apt-get updated` has been killed
while ! (systemctl list-units --all apt-daily.service | egrep -q '(dead|failed)')
do
sleep 1;
done
#Disable service at startup
systemctl mask apt-daily.service apt-daily-upgrade.service
systemctl disable apt-daily.service apt-daily-upgrade.service
systemctl disable apt-daily.timer apt-daily-upgrade.timer
# install cloud-init
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install linux-image-generic xserver-xorg
apt-get remove linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04
apt-get install --install-recommends -y cloud-init xe-guest-utilities cloud-initramfs-growroot xserver-xorg-video-all
#hostname will be managed by cloud-init, but the current value will not be removed
HOSTNAME=`hostname`
sed -i "/${HOSTNAME}/d" /etc/hosts
sed -i s/enp0s3/eth0/g /etc/network/interfaces
sed -i "s/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet\"/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet vga=normal fb=false dsmode\=nocloud\\;s\=\/ratatosk\"/g" /etc/default/grub
#sed -i "s/Before\=sysinit\.target/After\=sysinit\.target/g" /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-init.service
#sed -i "s/\[Service\]/\[Service\]\r\nAfter\=\cloud-init.service/g" /lib/systemd/system/xe-daemon.service
#sed -i "s/\[Service\]/\[Service\]\r\nExecStartPre\=\/bin\/sleep 30/g" /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-init.service
#sed -i "s/\[Service\]/\[Service\]\r\nExecStartPre\=\/bin\/sleep 30/g" /etc/systemd/system/cloud-init.target.wants/cloud-init-local.service
sed -i "s/datasource_list: \[ NoCloud, ConfigDrive, OpenNebula, DigitalOcean, Azure, AltCloud, OVF, MAAS, GCE, OpenStack, CloudSigma, SmartOS, Bigstep, Scaleway, AliYun, Ec2, CloudStack, Exoscale, RbxCloud, UpCloud, None \]//g" /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg
cp /tmp/cloud.cfg /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg && rm /tmp/cloud.cfg
cat <<EOF >> /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/90_dpkg.cfg
datasource_list: [ NoCloud, None ]
datasource:
NoCloud:
seedfrom: /ratatosk/
EOF
update-grub
mkdir /ratatosk
echo "/dev/xvdb /ratatosk vfat defaults 0 2" >> /etc/fstab
DI_LOG=stderr /usr/lib/cloud-init/ds-identify --force
dpkg-reconfigure -f noninteractive cloud-init
stuck on :
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Any suggestion or whatever i'm missing ? Ubuntu 16.04 OVA created the same way can be imported and booted flawlessly.
