Packer: winrm_host is ignored, at least on Amazon EBS

[et304383]

Using packer compiled from source as I debugged. So latest.
Platform: Windows 2008
Debug output doesn't show anything useful without additional logging added for the host value

winrm_host is simply ignored. Doesn't matter what I set it to.

Looking in step_connect_winrm.go in the waitForWinRM function it seems Host is the only variable that is obtained by calling out to s.Host(). The remaining WinRM variables are obtained by directly hitting s.Config.WinRM*

[mwhooker]

this looks like a docs bug, thanks for pointing it out. We don't expect users to set winrm_host. It looks like maybe it's only used the vmware builder

[et304383]

I need this value - I'm attempting to provision a Windows instance in a private subnet through an SSH tunnel for port 5985 so I need this value to be 127.0.0.1

Are you saying there's no way to do this since the value seems to be ignored for EC2?

[slime-uk]

I was trying docker builder with WinRM communicator and also noticed (according to debug log) it seemed to ignore the winrm_host value I’d specified (also set to 127.0.0.1). See issue 3 on #6006

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