Packer/Chef noob here. Please excuse my ignorance.
This packer.exe call from a Powershell session fails…
.\packer build -force -only hyperv-iso hyperv-2016.json
The following output suggests a problem installing the NuGet package due to the missing tags ‘PackageManagement’ and ‘Provider’. Assuming this is the root cause, can someone assist me in resolving the problem?
hyperv-iso: Recipe: packer-templates::install_ps_modules
hyperv-iso: * powershell_script[install Nuget package provider] action run
hyperv-iso:
hyperv-iso: ================================================================================
hyperv-iso: Error executing action run on resource ‘powershell_script[install Nuget package provider]’
hyperv-iso: ================================================================================
hyperv-iso:
hyperv-iso: Mixlib::ShellOut::ShellCommandFailed
hyperv-iso: ------------------------------------
hyperv-iso: Expected process to exit with [0], but received ‘1’
hyperv-iso: ---- Begin output of “C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe” -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -InputFormat None -File “C:/Users/vagrant/AppData/Local/Temp/chef-script20200629-2796-10d960z.ps1” ----
hyperv-iso: STDOUT: WARNING: MSG:UnableToDownload «https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=627338&clcid=0x409» «»
hyperv-iso: WARNING: Unable to download the list of available providers. Check your internet connection.
hyperv-iso: WARNING: Unable to download from URI ‘https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=627338&clcid=0x409’ to ‘’.
hyperv-iso: STDERR: No match was found for the specified search criteria for the provider ‘NuGet’. The package provider requires ‘PackageManagement’ and ‘Provider’ tags. Please check if the specified package has the tags.
hyperv-iso: ---- End output of “C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe” -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -InputFormat None -File “C:/Users/vagrant/AppData/Local/Temp/chef-script20200629-2796-10d960z.ps1” ----
hyperv-iso: Ran “C:\Windows\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe” -NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -InputFormat None -File “C:/Users/vagrant/AppData/Local/Temp/chef-script20200629-2796-10d960z.ps1” returned 1
hyperv-iso:
hyperv-iso: Resource Declaration:
hyperv-iso: ---------------------
hyperv-iso: # In c:/windows/temp/packer-chef-solo/local-mode-cache/cache/cookbooks/packer-templates/recipes/install_ps_modules.rb
hyperv-iso:
hyperv-iso: 1: powershell_script ‘install Nuget package provider’ do
hyperv-iso: 2: code ‘Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force’
hyperv-iso: 3: not_if ‘(Get-PackageProvider -Name Nuget -ListAvailable -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -ne $null’
hyperv-iso: 4: end
hyperv-iso: 5:
hyperv-iso:
hyperv-iso: Compiled Resource:
hyperv-iso: ------------------
hyperv-iso: # Declared in c:/windows/temp/packer-chef-solo/local-mode-cache/cache/cookbooks/packer-templates/recipes/install_ps_modules.rb:1:in `from_file’
hyperv-iso:
hyperv-iso: powershell_script(“install Nuget package provider”) do
hyperv-iso: action [:run]
hyperv-iso: default_guard_interpreter :powershell_script
hyperv-iso: backup 5
hyperv-iso: interpreter “powershell.exe”
hyperv-iso: declared_type :powershell_script
hyperv-iso: cookbook_name “packer-templates”
hyperv-iso: recipe_name “install_ps_modules”
hyperv-iso: code “Install-PackageProvider -Name NuGet -Force”
hyperv-iso: domain nil
hyperv-iso: user nil
hyperv-iso: flags “-NoLogo -NonInteractive -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -InputFormat None”
hyperv-iso: not_if “(Get-PackageProvider -Name Nuget -ListAvailable -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -ne $null”
hyperv-iso: end
hyperv-iso:
hyperv-iso: System Info:
hyperv-iso: ------------
hyperv-iso: chef_version=16.2.50
hyperv-iso: platform=windows
hyperv-iso: platform_version=10.0.14393
hyperv-iso: ruby=ruby 2.7.1p83 (2020-03-31 revision a0c7c23c9c) [x64-mingw32]
hyperv-iso: program_name=c:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-solo
hyperv-iso: executable=c:/opscode/chef/bin/chef-solo