Packer is a useful application for the users who need to create virtual machine images that can be used on multiple platforms. This package includes multiple command line tools that enable you to create identical images with minimum effort.
The tools support VMware, VirtualBox, Amazon EC2 or DigitalOcean platforms out of the box and enable you to extend their usage by using plugins.
What's New in This Release:
FEATURES:
· New command: packer inspect. This command tells you the components of a template. It respects the -machine-readable flag as well so you can parse out components of a template.
· Packer will detect its own crashes (always a bug) and save a "crash.log" file.
· builder/virtualbox: You may now specify multiple URLs for an ISO using "iso_url" in a template. The URLs will be tried in order.
· builder/vmware: You may now specify multiple URLs for an ISO using "iso_url" in a template. The URLs will be tried in order.
IMPROVEMENTS:
· core: built with Go 1.1.2
· core: packer help output now loads much faster.
· builder/virtualbox: guest_additions_url can now use the Version variable to get the VirtualBox version. [GH-272]
· builder/virtualbox: Do not check for VirtualBox as part of template validation; only check at execution.
· builder/vmware: Do not check for VMware as part of template validation; only check at execution.
· command/build: A path of "-" will read the template from stdin.
· builder/ama...