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ESXi / vSphere Setup

Firewall rules required

From your machine (where malboxes is installed) to the ESXi server

  • SSH (22)

  • VNC (packer will try allocating 5900 upwards until it finds a working port)

From your machine to the running guest for provisioning

  • WinRM (5985)

VNC Access

Opening the ESX firewall is necessary. On version 6.5 this works:

esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r gdbserver

Otherwise look at implementing the advice in here: https://gist.github.com/jasonberanek/4670943

Troubleshooting

No IP Address on guest

You need a DHCP server on the same network segment. ESXi doesn’t seem to provide his own. You can create a simple DHCP server on an Ubuntu server with isc-dhcp-server.

Misc.

Something packer said I needed to do:

esxcli system settings advanced set -o /Net/GuestIPHack -i 1