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layout: "docs"
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page_title: "XenServer-iso Commented Example"
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description: |-
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This is a Commented example for how to use the xenserver-iso Packer Builder.
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This Example is written in hcl
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---
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# What's this
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This Example builds a vanilla Centos 8 Template. No Provisioning or Post-Processing will be done.
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If you want to run this example, you have to replace the following variables with your own values.
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```hcl
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remote_host = "xenserver.example.org"
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remote_username = "root"
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remote_password = "very-secret-password"
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sr_iso_name = "Local-ISO"
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sr_name = "Local-SR"
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tools_iso_name = "guest-tools.iso"
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```
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## Parts of this example
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This examples composes the following files from the examples folder
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* [centos8-example.pkr.hcl](../../examples/http/centos/centos8-example.pkr.hcl)
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* [ks-centos8-example.cfg](../../examples/http/centos/ks-centos8-example.cfg)
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## Explanation of centos8-example.pkr.hcl
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* `source "xenserver-iso" "example" { } ` directs packer to configure an Artifact named example using the `xenserver-iso` builder
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* `iso_url = "http://mirrors.ocf.berkeley.edu/centos/8.3.2011/isos/x86_64/CentOS-8.3.2011-x86_64-dvd1.iso" ` use the iso obtainable from this url
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* `iso_checksum_type = "sha1"` the checksum is of type sha1
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* `iso_checksum = "aaf9d4b3071c16dbbda01dfe06085e5d0fdac76df323e3bbe87cce4318052247"` The checksum for the ISO.
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* `sr_name = "Local-SR"` store the vmdisk used during install on the SR named `Local-SR`
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* `sr_iso_name = "Local-ISO"` store the iso used during install on the ISO-SR named `Local-ISO`
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* `tools_iso_name = "guest-tools.iso"` mount the guest-tools iso with the name `guest-tools.iso`
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* `remote_host = "xenserver.example.org"` the ipadress or fqdn of the xenserver. This should be the pool primary
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* `remote_username = "root"` the user with witch to connect.
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* `remote_password = "very-secret-password"` the password for the user.
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* `vm_name = "packer-centos8-example"` How packer will name the vm.
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* `vm_description = "This is an example."` The description field of the vm
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* `vm_memory = 4096` the Amount of RAM, in MB
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* `disk_size = 4096` the Size of the Primary Disk in MB
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* `http_directory = "examples/http/centos8'` Packer will spin up a http-server for serving files to the installing vm. the kickstart file `ks-centos8-examples.cfg` is in this directory
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* `boot_wait = "10s'` Wait for 10s after starting the VM before typeing the `boot_command`
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* `boot_command = ["<tab> text ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/ks-centos8-examples.cfg<enter><wait>"'`
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* The command to type into the installing vm.
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* `<tab>` a tab Character `\t`
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* `text ks=http://` character literals
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* `{{ .HTTPIP }}` will be replaced by the local ip-address.
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* `:` character literal
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* `{{ .HTTPPort }}` will be replaced by the local port. Will be randomly selectet between 8000 and 9000
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* `/ks-centos8-examples.cfg` character literals
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* `<enter>` an enter character
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* `<wait>` wait for 1s
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* `ssh_username = "root"` The ssh user packer uses to connect to the VM
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* `ssh_password = "centos"` The ssh password packer uses to connect to the VM
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* `ssh_wait_timeout = "10m"` consider install failed if unable to connect via ssh 10m into the build
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* `shutdown_command = "/sbin/shutdown"` After connection via ssh issue this command to shut down the vm
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* `output_directory = "packer-centos8-local"` Store the resulting xva file in this directory
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* `keep_vm = "on_success"` Create a template with the vm after a successfull build
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* `build { }` Tell packer what to do while builing
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* `sources = ["xenserver-iso.example"]` Build the `xenserver.example` without changing any configuration.
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## Explanation of ks-centos8-examples.cfg
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```
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eula --agreed
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# agree to the eula of centos
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lang en-US.UTF-8
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# set the system-locale to en-US.UTF-8
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timezone Europe/Berlin
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# set the timezone to Europe/Berlin
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url --url="http://mirror.centos.org/centos/8.3.2011/BaseOS/x86_64/os/"
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# Primary installation mirror
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text
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skipx
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# Install in textmode, do not configure X11
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firstboot --disable
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# Dont do any configuration on first boot
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rootpw --plaintext centos
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# set the reboot to "centos"
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firewall --enabled --ssh
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# enable the firewall, allow ssh
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selinux --enforcing
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# ensure selinux is in enforcing mode
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logging --level=info
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# Installation logging level
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network --bootproto=dhcp --device=eth0 --onboot=on
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# configure the network with dhcp on install
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clearpart --all
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zerombr
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bootloader --location=mbr
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# Clear all partitioning on all disk
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# Zero the MBR section
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# Install the bootloader into the MBR
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part / --asprimary --fstype="ext4" --size=1024 --grow
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# / shall the a primary partition with ext4
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# with a mimimul size of 1024 MB, but growing to the actual size of the disk
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%packages
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@base
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%end
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# install all packages of the core group
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reboot --eject
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# After finishing eject all CD-Disk and reboot
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```
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