[solved] Qemu not ejecting cdrom issue

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Hey all,

Just started learning Packer today, so feel free to point me at docs I may have missed.

I think I’m running into this issue: Packer 1.8.0: QEMU fails to remove CD-ROM installation image during reboot (worked fine with 1.7.10) · Issue #66 · hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu · GitHub Or, at least, something similar.

Am I reading that issue correctly in that newer versions of qemu wouldn’t have that problem?

Basically, when I try to build my Ubuntu 20.04 server image, the console eventually gets stuck at the language selection screen. Prior to that screen I spot a “failed to unmounting /cdrom” message.

A little while after that it boots directly to the language selection screen.

I have tried using older versions of Packer and older versions of the qemu plugin. I tried with, and without, use_pflash. When I tried using /usr/share/qemu/OVMF.fd, I just ended up in grub instead of subquitity. Which mad the boot_command fail.

Anyone have any other workarounds?

Debugging info:

System: PopOS 20.04
qemu: 4.2.1
Packer: 1.8.3

Logs here: packerqemu - Pastebin.com

My qemu-ubuntu2004.pkr.hcl:

packer {
  required_plugins {
    qemu = {
      version = ">= 1.0.5"
      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/qemu"
    }
  }
}

source "qemu" "ubuntu2004" {
  iso_url          = "https://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.5/ubuntu-20.04.5-live-server-amd64.iso"
  iso_checksum     = "sha256:5035be37a7e9abbdc09f0d257f3e33416c1a0fb322ba860d42d74aa75c3468d4"
  output_directory = "images"
  shutdown_command = "echo 'packer' | sudo -S shutdown -P now"
  memory           = 2048
  disk_size        = "88064M"
  format           = "qcow2"
  accelerator      = "kvm"
  http_directory   = "http"
  ssh_username     = "root"
  ssh_password     = "password1234"
  ssh_timeout      = "30m"
  vm_name          = "ubuntu2004"
  disk_interface   = "virtio"
  disk_compression = true
  boot_wait        = "2s"
  use_pflash       = true
  boot_command = [
    " <wait>",
    " <wait>",
    " <wait>",
    " <wait>",
    " <wait>",
    "<esc><wait>",
    "<f6><wait>",
    "<esc><wait>",
    "<bs><bs><bs><bs><wait>",
    " autoinstall<wait>",
    " ds=nocloud-net<wait>",
    ";s=http://<wait>{{.HTTPIP}}<wait>:{{.HTTPPort}}/<wait>",
    " ---<wait>",
    "<enter><wait2m>"
  ]
  pause_before_connecting = "3m"
}

build {
  name = "ubuntu2004"
  sources = [
    "source.qemu.ubuntu2004"
  ]
}

My http/user-data:

#cloud-config
autoinstall:
  version: 1
  identity:
    hostname: ubuntu2004
    password: `$6$rounds=4000$oe480h2nrouhr03n$5Ohz4fZcVnCN407JE.5oC0aWxG1ppdvXsV17wSNcZBEKwzKKrinz2vC1ji62OYOhUcXwNye6lEC9Ro69/Qovo.`
    username: ubuntu
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Wow. Talk about a red herring…

The issue had nothing to do with the cdrom.

It took me setting up a test vm to build qemu 7 in, then running things inside that vm to figure out I could pause the vm while it was executing. I luckily paused it just at the right time to see an error about a tick mark…

Yeah, so, somehow, I’m really not sure how, I put ticks around the password hash instead of of single quotes.

I fixed that, figured out that I should echo password1234 instead of packer in the shutdown command, and boom, I have an image.

Now, on to figuring out how to partition the image…