Plugin fails on windows builds since implied shell (`bash -l`) is unavailable about packer-plugin-vagrant HOT 6 OPEN

I could resolve this by adding config.ssh.shell = "powershell" in the Vagrantfile
but I feel like a Info level log should display at least the file is not created as a warning

from packer-plugin-vagrant.

Hi @VishnuJin,

May I ask you to provide some information regarding this? Could you share the template you're building that exhibits this behaviour, and ideally some logs (with PACKER_LOG=1 set as environment variable) so we can investigate what causes the problem?

Without those, it'll be hard for us to pinpoint what's the cause of this problem.

Thanks in advance

from packer-plugin-vagrant.

@lbajolet-hashicorp I have -now updated the first comment with the log content set to 1, thanks

from packer-plugin-vagrant.

Hi @VishnuJin,

Thanks for sharing those, with this information we can progress. This does seem to be a bug with the builder, and I would suspect the post-processor might also have a similar issue. I'm not sure yet how we can fix this reliably (outside of extra config), but definitely this is something to discuss/work on.

I'll keep this issue updated.

Thanks again for the report!

from packer-plugin-vagrant.

Hi @VishnuJin,

I've just opened a PR which fixes how we handle vagrant's return codes, which should fix partly your issue, as now Packer will return the error that Vagrant points to (ssh shell unavailable on guest machine).

There still remains the problem of changing the shell for the machine being built. I'm not sure we can reliably infer it, so this is likely something that will need to be included in the template by the user.
By any chance would your PR #112 be one solution to fix that? I would believe this could make it possible to add the option to the base template you provide, but my limited knowledge of Vagrant prevents me from affirming it.

from packer-plugin-vagrant.

@lbajolet-hashicorp
Sorry I also have very limited knowledge on Vagrant.
But just curious , is it not possible to infer whether its on windows or other OS using config.vm.guest = :windows which im sure all base windows boxes have !

from packer-plugin-vagrant.