Feature stepremoteupload

[remijouannet]

Sorry this PR also include everything in #144

this PR include a step to upload an iso to vpshere for the builder vsphere-iso

[steven-sheehy]

I was looking for this feature as well to have feature parity with vmware-iso. Any update when this could be reviewed? Thanks @remijouannet for your contribution.

[remijouannet]

hey @steven-sheehy meanwhile you can use my build https://github.com/remijouannet/packer-builder-vsphere/releases/tag/v2.1-alpha

[steven-sheehy]

@remijouannet Thanks, I tried it and it does not allow you to use the old approach of only specifying iso_paths:

1 error(s) occurred:
* One of iso_url or iso_urls must be specified.

[remijouannet]

here is a working example, don't use iso_path

"iso_urls": [
"https://mirrors.ircam.fr/pub/CentOS/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso"
],
"iso_checksum_type" : "sha256",
"iso_checksum" : "714acc0aefb32b7d51b515e25546835e55a90da9fb00417fbee2d03a62801efd",
"iso_target_path" : "/tmp/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal-1804.iso",

[steven-sheehy]

Yes, I also have the iso_urls approach working. My point was I think the maintainers will probably want to keep the old approach as well. iso_paths is also still mentioned in README and in examples as supported.

[remijouannet]

Yeah but iso_paths is use for mouting a ISO that is already upload on the esxi, my patch doesn't remove that you juste have too choose between the two methods

Anyway i will wait for the review to see if this behavior is ok or not

[segator]

it works nicely!!!

are you going to integrate it? I'm planning to use this plugin for my development automatic proceses with jenkins.

[mkuzmin]

I'd happy to merge this! please rebase the branch onto master

[remijouannet]

Will work on that ☺️

[remijouannet]

new PR #164

[swerveshot]

Great work on this issue guys. Now with this feature added combining Packer with Terraform almost brings a Vagrant-like experience to vSphere. I'm amazed that it takes a community project to achieve this and Hashicorp still requires you use a nasty SSH backdoor.