Packer: virtualbox-ovf - when source_path is URL -> VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS

Created on 1 Jan 2018 · 6Comments · Source: hashicorp/packer

Minimal reproduction repo at https://gitlab.com/jcrben-repro/packer-cache
Steps:
packer build template.json (wait for it to complete, should have no errors)
packer build -force template.json

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Virtualbox: Version 5.1.26 r117224 (Qt5.6.2)
Packer - 1.1.3
Host OS - 10.11.6 (15G1611)

bug buildevirtualbox

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jcrben

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@pgroudas if you add a reaction it might be easier to sort as hitting more people

@rickard-von-essen I think you can remove the awaiting-reply here

jcrben on 14 Jul 2018

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Your ~~~ovan~~~ ova file is only 1.2 MB which seems a bit to small.

rickard-von-essen on 1 Jan 2018

ovan file? do you mean ova? I'm probably missing something obvious, but it appears to be 808MB as I expect:

jcrben on 1 Jan 2018

Yeah, sorry it seems to work.

rickard-von-essen on 2 Jan 2018

I've bumped into this as well with packer 1.2.2.

When running packer with virtualbox-ovf builder, if the source_path is a local file, I can repeatedly use packer, and it successfully imports the source .ova file repeatedly without modifying it.

When the source_path is a URL, it downloads the file, and runs successfully the first time, but somehow modifies the file in the cache so that on subsequent runs it fails.

pgroudas on 20 Apr 2018

@pgroudas if you add a reaction it might be easier to sort as hitting more people

@rickard-von-essen I think you can remove the awaiting-reply here

jcrben on 14 Jul 2018

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