Packer template for Ubuntu2204

[maroskukan]

Hey Jeff, this should address #93 . I was working on this a little while. It should be aligned with the rest of your builds, uses json and same provisioning scripts as your other boxes.

Some differences include:

• user-data definition for cloud init as oppose to kickstart file for d-i
• nfs_udp: false added to synced folder as described in this issue

Some technical details:
Builder on Ubuntu 20.04, VirtualBox 6.1.34
Tested on Ubuntu 20.04 and MacOS Sierra.

• Packer build log
• Vagrant run log

Hope you find these useful.

Fixes: #93

[geerlingguy]

Thank you! I'll grab this and test as soon as I get a chance, and hopefully be able to push a build up to geerlingguy/ubuntu2204!

[maroskukan]

No worries @geerlingguy I think in the meantime there was a new minor release of the source iso. I can update this PR or you could change that afterwards. Let me know. This build should still work though.

[stevenscg]

@maroskukan I'm trying to replicate some of your work here with the 22.04.1 live server image. I keep getting thrown into the interactive install process starting with the language selection. Did you encounter anything similar?

[maroskukan]

Hi @stevenscg , yes. It could be caused by number of things:

Firmware selection, process differs for each of them

• BIOS (I believe this is what you are using now)
• EFI

Other issues that may cause you ending up in interactive shell could be influenced in the template by:

• boot timeout
• boot commands (e.g. line breaks, escapes etc)

It could be also caused if user-data is not reachable for some reason during installation.

What I would suggest is to perform the installation using user-data file hosted from simple web server (e.g. python -m http-server). And then appending the required arguments to boot command. You can then see whether it fetched the file and failed.

This multi-provider blueprint could help.

[stevenscg]

@maroskukan Thanks. I'll see if I can figure out and test with the standalone method. FWIW, I tried this branch with only the following URL changed and still get thrown into the interactive mode: https://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/22.04/ubuntu-22.04-live-server-amd64.iso