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Packer Image Builder for CentOS

Introduction

This packer templates create vmware image of CentOS 7 with .vmx file type.

The OS versions are:

  • Centos 7

For all operating systems we generate images for

  • VmWare (user: packer/changeme1234)

This template only is tested against 64 bit systems. With the following sizing requirements:

  "vmx_data": {
    "cpuid.coresPerSocket": "1",
    "memsize": "512",
    "numvcpus": "2"
  }
  "disk_size": 81920

Requirements

The templates are only tested with packer 0.10.1 and later.

Run conversion process

# Build CentOS VMWare image
PACKER_LOG=1 packer build centos7.json

Issues during build time

If you experience issues with packer, please use PACKER_LOG=1 packer ... to find the errors.

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License

TBD