From 8a32e10dc30891d79e00f9c3c6fbc95001ef1ec1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Daniel=20Kosch=C3=BCtzki?= Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 22:20:09 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Updated examples/readme.md for the ubuntu example --- examples/README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md index 935cdb9..178725f 100644 --- a/examples/README.md +++ b/examples/README.md @@ -25,6 +25,21 @@ so for example: ### Ubuntu +This example has not yet updated to HCL. + +In order to run this example you will need to perform the following steps: +1. Export the `XAPI_HOST`, `XAPI_USERNAME` and `XAPI_PASSWORD` environment variables to the current shell. Note: The `XAPI_HOST` must be the resource pool primary. +2. Run the `packer build` command specifying the storage repositories to use for the ISO upload and for the VM created during the build. + +``` +# Replace sr_name and sr_iso_name with your storage repositories names +packer build -debug --var sr_name='Local storage' --var sr_iso_name=LocalISO examples/centos8.json + +# Do the same variable replacement for the ubuntu example as well. +packer build -debug --var sr_name='Local storage' --var sr_iso_name=LocalISO examples/ubuntu-2004.json +``` + + The Ubuntu example uses the [autoinstall tool](https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstallhttps://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall) to configure the VM template. Please see the [autoinstall docs](https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install/autoinstall-reference) for an exhaustive list of what is supported. Packer will create a http server to serve the files as specified from the `http_directory` specified in the builder configuration. This is where the [user-data](http/ubuntu-2004/user-data) and [meta-data](http/ubuntu-2004/meta-data) for autoinstall must be present.