VMware ESXi Packer templates

Prerequisites

• Packer > 1.5
• VMware Fusion or Workstation

Build artifacts

This packer template requires to variables to be set either via command line or separate JSON file:

1. iso_file - is the ESXi ISO for the build (can be local or remote).
2. iso_checksum - is the ESXi ISO checksum you can find on MyVMware when downloading the image, prefixed with the type (such as md5:).

To kick off a full build:

packer build \
       -var 'iso_file=iso/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0U1c-17325551.x86_64.iso' \
       -var 'iso_checksum=md5:4829a336445741bf13f10bcb79723d40' \
       packer-esxi.json

The Packer template and the scripts have been tested with ESXi version 5.5, 6.x and 7.0.1.

Default root password for the resulting Vagrant box is Vagrant!23.

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