Packer: Removal of iso_paths before finishing build for vsphere-iso

[erikgraa]

Feature Description

Including more than one of either iso_urls or iso_paths for a build seems to permanently add an extra CD-rom drive to a virtual machine.

Use Case(s)

It would be nice if it were possible to revert to having only a single CD-rom just prior to a build finishing up. Rarely does one _want_ more than one CD-rom apart from during a packer build.

[erikgraa]

I found the remove_cdromdirective that was merged in #8690.

If one specifies remove_cdrom as true, it seems that all CD-roms on the VM are removed. I only want the superfluous ones removed and not the default CD-rom that comes when creating a VMware VM.

Any chance one can reorganize remove_cdrom to support this trinary granularity? Right now it either removes all of them or none at all.

[SwampDragons]

Thanks for opening. I'm not sure when we'll get a chance to look at this, but PRs are welcome if someone from the community wants to work on it.

[jhawk28]

I suggest that the builder remove all but one CD drive by default. The alternative is to make remove_cdrom into an integer so that it can specify how many cdrom drives should be left.

[rwroe]

I suggest that the builder remove all but one CD drive by default.

I think this is a great solution and would love to see it implemented. We typically have 1 cdrom on our template and currently have to remove the extra one that is created.