What plugins are included in default installation

Packer
1

Hi,

Im using packer and the vsphere plugin. I recently discovered that the plugin might not be in the paths discovered by packer and when i tried removing the plugin nothing broke. Is this only something that happens on my machine or is this the correct behavior? The logs also say "Starting internal plugin packer-builder-vsphere-iso.

2

Hey
If you launch

packer plugins installed

you’ll get path and plugins installed in your machine.

If yours is listed, the correct way to delete it is :

packer plugins remove

if you want to install vsphere-iso properly through command line :

packer plugins install github.com/hashicorp/vsphere

Else, put this block into your Packer build (from this doc GitHub - hashicorp/packer-plugin-vsphere: Packer plugin for VMware vSphere Builder )

packer {
required_version = “>= 1.7.0”
required_plugins {
vsphere = {
version = “>= 1.1.1”
source = “github.com/hashicorp/vsphere”
}
}
}

3

Thanks for the reply. The plugin is “manually” installed and doesn’t show up. I did some more digging and placed in the correct folder and now the logs say “starting external plugin /root/.packer.d/plugins/packer-plugin-vsphere…” but it still won’t show up on plugins installed.
My original question still stands, what plugins are packaged with the packer binary by default?

4

So what do you mean by manually installed ? Like extract a .tar somewhere in your directories ? Give some more details :grin:

5

Zip downloaded from : Releases · hashicorp/packer-plugin-vsphere · GitHub and installed using Install Plugins | Packer | HashiCorp Developer