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The software tool used for creating machine images for multiple virtualization platforms from a single configuration.

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How do I create separate zip files for each selected file/directory in 7zip?

This is the internal zip packer from Total Commander: However I want to use my 7zip packer. When I select 5 files, I get 5 separate .zip archives for each selected file. How do I do that in 7zip?
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Truly delete all traces of a Vagrant machine

How do I remove all traces of a Vagrant box without having to go into the file system manually? I am creating a custom box using Packer, building and destroying a lot of test cases. When finished with a test case, I run vagrant destroy The vagrant…
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Are there any 64-bit Executable Packers?

Is there a good, free packer out there for 64-bit executables? I'm looking for something like UPX, except that UPX doesn't seem to support 64-bit executables.
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Modprobe floppy not found for Rocky Linux 8.4

On installing Rocky Linux 8.4 with Packer and vCenter 6.5., there is an error message that modprobe cannot find floppy module in the kernel folder. Does this mean this distribution has no support for floppy disk?
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Packer build of a virtualbox windows 7 ISO hangs

When I am building a win 7 box using packer, it hangs waiting for SSH to be available: ==> virtualbox-iso: Downloading or copying Guest additions virtualbox-iso: Downloading or copying: file:///vb/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso ==> virtualbox-iso:…
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How do I convert my existing zip files to 7z with 7-zip comand line?

I'd like to convert a couple thousand zip files to 7z, with maximum compression and multithreading enabled. Also in another place. Like c:\temp\file.zip to f:\converted\file.7z
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How to setup networking for Packer and Virtualbox to enable connection between host and guest?

This is driving me crazy. I am trying to build a Debian image from an ISO using Packer and the VirtualBox builder (on macOS, if that matters). This process involves the VM downloading a Debian preseed file from a HTTP server provided by Packer. The…
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ping: : Name or service not known - while pinging a valid ip

Well, This appears to be a known issue to many but I've applied many of the workarounds I found online but none of them worked! I'm running packer from a docker container to build an image on openstack. I could get the ip address of the instance but…
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Connect to Azure machine via public ip from terraform

I successfull made the virtual machine in Azure with Terraform ( from a Packer image). After the Virtual machine created, I would run some commands remotely on the newly created machine. The machine has a piblic ip but that ip attached dynamically…
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clone vagrant box into a fresh one

I built a vagrant box via using packer. It generates a .box file and I was able to use vagrant to bring it up. Now I would like to build a cluster of, say, 2 machines. So I'd like a new machine from ideally the same .box file. I google a bit and…
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packer.io exit code of provisioning script

I got packer.io for building VM images. I provision VMs with shell script which uses puppet. Now sometimes there is situation where this provisioning script fails to provision VM correctly. I am using Rundeck to trigger provisioning by packer. I…
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Networking not working on Packer created Ubuntu VirtualBox VM

I'm trying to build a VirtualBox Ubuntu VM using Packer. My image was successfully created and I configured it to use my Wi-Fi (Mac OS X AirPort) interface for bridged networking. However, after booting up the VM it only has the loopback interface…
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How do I create seperate 7z files from each selected directory with 7zip command line?

FOR %i IN (*.*) DO 7z.exe a "%~ni.7z" "%i" Does the job for each selected file. However I've got tons of directories (with files inside them obviously) I need to pack. Say I have d:\dir1, d:\dir2, d:\dir3, d:\dir4. I need 7zip to pack them this…
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Packer Template incorrectly pre-pending EC2

A prefix of ec2 is being added in the packer AMI bake job which is causing some issues as we need the URL to be ebs-fips.us-east-1.amazonaws.com as per FIPS - Amazon Web Services (AWS) but currently is coming through as below: amazon-ebs: error…
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VirtualBox: Cannot write compressed data block (VERR_DISK_FULL

I am trying to export a virtual-machine with packer, and after the installation process process is completed I am prompted the following error: Error Message My disk is not full - I have 750GB of free space, also I can generate other images with…
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