Deprecated

This postprocessor was merged to hashicorp/packer.

Freezer is a Packer Postprocessor for VMWare vSphere

It allows you to create a template for the vmware-iso builder.

Go ahead and download a pre-built Freezer binary for your operating system from Releases page Then you need choose one folder for the magic to begins:

1. The directory where packer is, or the executable directory.

2. ~/.packer.d/plugins on Unix systems or %APPDATA%/packer.d/plugins on Windows.

3. The current working directory.

For more details check the install plugins page

Basic Example

{  
   "type":"freezer",
   "host":"{{user `host`}}",
   "insecure": true,
   "username":"{{user `username`}}",
   "password":"{{user `password`}}",
   "vm_name":"{{user `vm_name`}}"
}

• insecure - If it's true Skip verification of server certificate. Default is false.

Configuration Reference

Optional parameters:

• folder - Where the template is created.
• datacenter - If you have more than one, you will need to specified one.

Full Example

{  
   "type":"freezer",
   "host":"vcenter.local",
   "insecure": true,
   "username":"root",
   "password":"sssh_is_a_secret",
   "datacenter":"murlock",
   "vm_name":"centos-7.3",
   "folder":"/packer-templates/os/centos-7"
}