cd_content is not generating an ISO about packer-plugin-virtualbox HOT 4 OPEN

@Geogboe The SSH issue is a separate problem that can affect Ubuntu 20.04 installs using any method of providing cloud-init config files. The Ubuntu subiquity installer starts an SSH server during the install process. Packer attempts to connect to this server, but is unsuccessful because the server doesn't have access to the user created on the newly installed system. Once the system reboots Packer can successfully log in with the installed user.

Last month there were enough retry attempts for Packer to wait out the install process without exiting early. I think the increase in security updates to install in Sep and Oct (the last step in the install process) increased the install time to a point where more SSH retry attempts are now required.

Back to the issue at hand, I still have not been able to use cd_content successfully, although for my purposes this isn't so critical as I moved to using http_contentinstead (just had to figure out that ip=dhcp is required in the boot command).

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I was also having this issue with Packer 1.7.4, but it seems to be fixed in 1.7.6?

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@vrevelas I just repeated the test with 1.7.6 and still get the same behavior.

One note on the original tests, for some reason now I need to increase SSH handshake attempts and SSH timeout to successfully build the image with cd_files. Not sure what has changed on my end to cause that.

ssh_handshake_attempts = "200"
ssh_timeout = "30m"

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@ctberthiaume Strangely, I saw the same issue with the hyper-v builder so it looks like these new plugins may be importing the same bug -- which seem to just be that cd_content wasn't declared in the interface.

While there seems to be a fix: #35 when I built the plugin from source it still doesn't work for me. So were you able to get it to work just by modifying your ssh values?

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