@AtaxyaNetwork
Glad i can help and give back to the community

@AtaxyaNetwork
Do you mean the actual packer pkr.hcl fiel or the unattented.xml?

I still need to figure the actual packer file out, hoping it wil be quite similar.

i do have an windows server unattended.xml that works with proxmox, just will have to slightly adjust.

however i can share both when im done with it

@AtaxyaNetwork

That did solve the problem, guess the 386 is the 32bit version, doh!

succeeded making debian template with packer, now on to the windows server 2022 template

@AtaxyaNetwork
Glad i can help and give back to the community

@AtaxyaNetwork

Finaly got a Windows Server 2022 packer template to work with xen server guest tools.

autounattend.xml in the root dir of the iso along with the guest tool .msi

https://www.xenserver.com/downloads

autounattend .txt

windows server.txt

@AtaxyaNetwork
Do you mean the actual packer pkr.hcl fiel or the unattented.xml?

I still need to figure the actual packer file out, hoping it wil be quite similar.

i do have an windows server unattended.xml that works with proxmox, just will have to slightly adjust.

however i can share both when im done with it

@AtaxyaNetwork

That did solve the problem, guess the 386 is the 32bit version, doh!

succeeded making debian template with packer, now on to the windows server 2022 template

@AtaxyaNetwork Again, thank you for youre time

i will test the amd64 builder, thats a good suggestion, hopefully that wil solve the issue.

I also have an issue with the memory config, it will only take 1gb memory.

perhaps there is an limitation or problem with the windows 386 version

i will let you know the outcome

packer_log.txt

Hi, i have added a log file.

would it matter if i run this on an ssd or not?

@AtaxyaNetwork

Thank you for testing

i will (after working hours) deploy again and show the trace.

i have been testing with different disk size values and on my side anything higher than 2000mb fails back to 2mib.

at least i know its not the template but something else causing this. i wonder what..
i do have enough diskspace left so thats not the issue.

packer {
  required_plugins {
    xenserver = {
      version = "= v0.7.3"
      source  = "github.com/ddelnano/xenserver"
    }
  }
}
variable "remote_host" {
  type        = string
  description = "The ip or fqdn of your XCP-ng. It must be the master"
  sensitive   = true
  default     = "ip"
}

variable "remote_username" {
  type        = string
  description = "The username used to interact with your XCP-ng"
  sensitive   = true
  default     = "name"
}

variable "remote_password" {
  type        = string
  description = "The password used to interact with your XCP-ng"
  sensitive   = true
  default     = "pwd"
}

variable "sr_iso_name" {
  type        = string
  description = "The ISO-SR to packer will use"
  default     = "ISO"
}

variable "sr_name" {
  type        = string
  description = "The name of the SR to packer will use"
  default     = "Local storage"
}


source "xenserver-iso" "debian12" {
  iso_checksum = "ee8d8579128977d7dc39d48f43aec5ab06b7f09e1f40a9d98f2a9d149221704a"
  iso_url      = "https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-12.10.0-amd64-netinst.iso"

  sr_iso_name    = var.sr_iso_name
  sr_name        = var.sr_name
  tools_iso_name = ""

  remote_host     = var.remote_host
  remote_password = var.remote_password
  remote_username = var.remote_username

  http_directory = "http"
  ip_getter      = "tools"

  boot_command = [
    "<wait><wait><wait><esc><wait><wait><wait>",
    "/install.amd/vmlinuz ",
    "initrd=/install.amd/initrd.gz ",
    "auto=true ",
    "domain= ",
    "url=http://{{.HTTPIP}}:{{.HTTPPort}}/preseed.cfg ",
    "hostname=debian ",
    "interface=auto ",
    "vga=788 noprompt quiet--- <enter>"
  ]

  # Change this to match the ISO of debian you are using in the iso_url variable
  clone_template  = "Debian Bookworm 12"
  vm_name         = "Debian 12 template"
  vm_description  = "My first template with packer"
  vcpus_max       = 2
  vcpus_atstartup = 2
  vm_memory       = 1024 #MB
  network_names   = ["eth0"]
  disk_size       = 20480 #MB
  disk_name       = "debian disk"
  vm_tags         = ["Generated by Packer"]

  ssh_username           = "debian"
  ssh_password           = "debian"
  ssh_wait_timeout       = "60000s"
  ssh_handshake_attempts = 10000

  output_directory = "packer-debian-12"
  keep_vm          = "never"
  format           = "xva_compressed"
}

build {
  sources = ["xenserver-iso.debian12"]
}

hi, im am trying to use terraform and packer with xcp-ng

i am running into an issue with the disk only containing 2mb instead of 20gb
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i am using the packer template as per blog post
https://xcp-ng.org/blog/2024/02/22/using-packer-with-xcp-ng/
XCP-ng Blog
Using Packer with XCP-ng
Discover how to keep your VM templates always up-to-date and ready to go!

@Cyrille

ive made the template from running an Windows 2022 from my iso storage untill initial process was installed, shutdown the vm and created a template.

Edit: you are correct, using a builtin template has no issue's.
going to solve that problem first

thank you for the support