Not sure if anyone using Packer to build images for vmware vsphere 7.0.2. Here is the error I am having and I dont know what does it mean by device 0 What is this Device 0?
Here is the error:
==> vsphere-iso: Creating VM...==> vsphere-iso: Customizing hardware...==> vsphere-iso: Mounting ISO images...==> vsphere-iso: Destroying VM...Build 'vsphere-iso' errored after 956 milliseconds 798 microseconds: error mounting an image '': Incompatible device backing specified for device '0'.==> Wait completed after 957 milliseconds 63 microseconds==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:--> vsphere-iso: error mounting an image '': Incompatible device backing specified for device '0'.==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.Here are some logs from packer
2021/06/21 14:29:26 packer.exe plugin: Plugin address: tcp 127.0.0.1:100002021/06/21 14:29:26 packer.exe plugin: Waiting for connection...2021/06/21 14:29:26 Received tcp RPC address for C:\Program Files\HashiCorp\packer.exe: addr is 127.0.0.1:100002021/06/21 14:29:26 packer.exe plugin: Serving a plugin connection...2021/06/21 14:29:26 [TRACE] Starting internal plugin packer-provisioner-shell2021/06/21 14:29:26 Starting plugin: C:\Program Files\HashiCorp\packer.exe []string{"C:\\Program Files\\HashiCorp\\packer.exe", "plugin", "packer-provisioner-shell"}2021/06/21 14:29:26 Waiting for RPC address for: C:\Program Files\HashiCorp\packer.exe2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: [INFO] Packer version: 1.7.3 [go1.16.5 windows amd64]2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: [INFO] PACKER_CONFIG env var not set; checking the default config file path2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: [INFO] PACKER_CONFIG env var set; attempting to open config file: C:\Users\r.yang\AppData\Roaming\packer.config2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: [WARN] Config file doesn't exist: C:\Users\r.yang\AppData\Roaming\packer.config2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: [INFO] Setting cache directory: D:\001_devops\terraform\vmware\packer-vsphere-iso-linux\Ubuntu-20.04-LTS\packer_cache2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: args: []string{"packer-provisioner-shell"}2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: Plugin port range: [10000,25000]2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: Plugin address: tcp 127.0.0.1:100002021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: Waiting for connection...2021/06/21 14:29:27 Received tcp RPC address for C:\Program Files\HashiCorp\packer.exe: addr is 127.0.0.1:100002021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: Serving a plugin connection...2021/06/21 14:29:27 Preparing build: vsphere-iso2021/06/21 14:29:27 ui: vsphere-iso: output will be in this color.2021/06/21 14:29:27 ui: 2021/06/21 14:29:27 Build debug mode: false2021/06/21 14:29:27 Force build: false2021/06/21 14:29:27 On error: 2021/06/21 14:29:27 Waiting on builds to complete...2021/06/21 14:29:27 Starting build run: vsphere-iso2021/06/21 14:29:27 Running builder: vsphere-iso2021/06/21 14:29:27 [INFO] (telemetry) Starting builder vsphere-iso2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: No URLs were provided to Step Download. Continuing...2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: No CD files specified. CD disk will not be made.2021/06/21 14:29:27 ui: ==> vsphere-iso: Creating VM...2021/06/21 14:29:27 ui: ==> vsphere-iso: Customizing hardware...2021/06/21 14:29:27 ui: ==> vsphere-iso: Mounting ISO images...2021/06/21 14:29:27 packer.exe plugin: Creating CD-ROM on controller '&{{{} 200 0xc001360ee0 <nil> <nil> <nil> 0 <nil>} 0 []}' with iso ''2021/06/21 14:29:28 ui: ==> vsphere-iso: Destroying VM...2021/06/21 14:29:28 [INFO] (telemetry) ending vsphere-iso2021/06/21 14:29:28 ui error: Build 'vsphere-iso' errored after 1 second 647 milliseconds: error mounting an image '': Incompatible device backing specified for device '0'.2021/06/21 14:29:28 ui: ==> Wait completed after 1 second 647 milliseconds2021/06/21 14:29:28 machine readable: error-count []string{"1"}2021/06/21 14:29:28 ui error: ==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:2021/06/21 14:29:28 machine readable: vsphere-iso,error []string{"error mounting an image '': Incompatible device backing specified for device '0'."}2021/06/21 14:29:28 ui error: --> vsphere-iso: error mounting an image '': Incompatible device backing specified for device '0'.2021/06/21 14:29:28 ui: ==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.2021/06/21 14:29:28 [INFO] (telemetry) Finalizing.2021/06/21 14:29:29 waiting for all plugin processes to complete...2021/06/21 14:29:29 C:\Program Files\HashiCorp\packer.exe: plugin process exited2021/06/21 14:29:29 C:\Program Files\HashiCorp\packer.exe: plugin process exitedHere is the packer build json file, it is very simple and straight forward.
{"builders": [ {"type": "vsphere-iso","vcenter_server": "{{user `vcenter-server`}}","username": "{{user `vcenter-username`}}","password": "{{user `vcenter-password`}}","insecure_connection": "true","datacenter": "{{user `datacenter`}}","vm_name": "{{user `vm-name`}}","notes": "Build via Packer", "datastore": "{{user `datastore`}}","folder": "{{user `folder`}}","host": "{{user `host`}}","cluster": "{{user `cluster`}}","convert_to_template": "true","ssh_username": "{{user `ssh-username`}}","ssh_password": "{{user `ssh-password`}}", "boot_order": "disk,cdrom","guest_os_type": "ubuntu64Guest","CPUs": "{{user `vm-cpu-num`}}","RAM": "{{user `vm-mem-size`}}","RAM_reserve_all": false,"disk_controller_type": "pvscsi","storage": [ {"disk_size": "{{user `vm-disk-size`}}","disk_thin_provisioned": true } ],"network_adapters": [ {"network": "{{user `network`}}","network_card": "vmxnet3" } ],"iso_paths": ["{{user `iso_url`}}"],"floppy_files": ["./preseed.cfg"],"boot_command": ["<enter><wait><f6><wait><esc><wait>","<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>","/install/vmlinuz"," initrd=/install/initrd.gz"," priority=critical"," locale=en_US"," file=/media/preseed.cfg","<enter>" ] } ],"provisioners": [ {"type": "shell","inline": ["sudo rm /etc/machine-id", "sudo touch /etc/machine-id","echo 'Packer Template Build -- Complete'" ] } ]}