Build errored: Timeout while waiting for machine to shut down

[stefanscherer]

Build errored: Timeout while waiting for machine to shut down

[basictheprogram]

Thought I did the build with PACKER_LOG=1, I'll run it again.

Only change from upstream is changing iso_url to SW_DVD9_Win_Server_STD_CORE_2016_64Bit_English_-4_DC_STD_MLF_X21-70526.ISO

Edit 1

$ env | grep PACKER
PACKER_LOG=1

$ time packer build -only=vmware-iso -var 'disk_size=65536' --force -var-file=/Users/tanner/.packer.d/vsphere.json windows_2016.json > packer.log 2>&1

Post packer.log when it completes or errors.

packer.log

[StefanScherer]

I sometimes build with a MSDN ISO file and it worked for me.
Maybe we can see more with PACKER_LOG variable set to eg. 1.
Do you run a different shutdown command?

[basictheprogram]

At a loss on what is wrong here. Did some debugging. Installed a pause into the sysprep.bat so I could try a few things by hand.

net stop tiledatamodelsvc
pause
c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:a:\unattend.xml

Packer log snippet

2018/03/26 00:03:21 packer: The Tile Data model server service is stopping.
2018/03/26 00:03:21 packer: The Tile Data model server service was stopped successfully.
2018/03/26 00:03:21 packer:
2018/03/26 00:03:21 packer:
2018/03/26 00:03:21 packer: C:\Users\vagrant>pause
2018/03/26 00:03:21 packer: Press any key to continue . . .

I went to the VM, fired up an Administrator powershell and executed

c:\windows\system32\sysprep\sysprep.exe /generalize /oobe /shutdown /unattend:a:\unattend.xml

And the VM shutdown, Pressed any key to continue and packer still threw an error.

2018/03/26 00:03:21 packer: 2018/03/26 00:03:21 Shutdown stderr:
2018/03/26 00:03:21 ui error: ==> vmware-iso: Timeout while waiting for machine to shut down.
==> vmware-iso: Timeout while waiting for machine to shut down.

Note the timestamp on the Shutdown stderr:, it's like packer isn't wait any amount of time for shutdown to happen.

[basictheprogram]

This is a "new" (to my packer builders) but an older iMac. Added

    "shutdown_timeout": "1h",

Not images are created as expected.
Closing this issue.