Comment 0 for bug 341596

Binary package hint: ubuntu-vm-builder

This is under Jaunty alpha 5(ish).

Having followed the instructions on https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/serverguide/C/jeos-and-vmbuilder.html, I managed to install ubuntu-vm-builder and get apt-proxy installed and running in order to create a kvm-based ubunt-hardy image thus:

vmbuilder kvm ubuntu --suite hardy --flavour virtual --arch i386 -o --mirror http://localhost:9999/ubuntu --addpkg acpid

The resulting image boots quite happily under kvm.

I then decided to re-run the command to produce a VMWare Server equivalent:

vmbuilder vmserver ubuntu --suite hardy --flavour virtual --arch i386 -o --mirror http://localhost:9999/ubuntu --addpkg acpid

This NEARLY works, but dies at the last moment:

...
2009-03-12 08:43:47,352 INFO Copying to disk images
2009-03-12 08:44:21,273 INFO Installing bootloader
2009-03-12 08:44:24,119 INFO Unmounting target filesystem
2009-03-12 08:44:24,414 INFO Converting /tmp/vmbuilderB4UNWR/disk0.img to vmdk, format ubuntu-vmserver/disk0.vmdk
2009-03-12 08:44:55,874 INFO Cleaning up
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/vmbuilder", line 29, in <module>
    VMBuilder.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/__init__.py", line 66, in run
    frontend.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/plugins/cli/__init__.py", line 67, in run
    vm.create()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/vm.py", line 463, in create
    self.deploy()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/vm.py", line 184, in deploy
    getattr(self.hypervisor, 'deploy')()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/VMBuilder/plugins/vmware/vm.py", line 46, in deploy
    vmdesc = VMBuilder.util.render_template('vmware', self.vm, vmxtemplate, { 'disks' : self.disks(), 'vmhwversion' : self.vmhwversion, 'cpu' : self.vm.cpu, 'mem' : self.vm.mem, 'hostname' : self.vm.hostname, 'arch' : self.vm.arch, 'guestos' : (self.vm.arch == 'amd64' and 'ubuntu-64' or 'ubuntu') })
NameError: global name 'vmxtemplate' is not defined

I shall attach the output of re-running the command with the --debug option ...

root@graham-desktop:~# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu jaunty (development branch)
Release: 9.04

root@graham-desktop:~# apt-cache policy ubuntu-vm-builder
ubuntu-vm-builder:
  Installed: 0.10-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.10-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.10-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status