Works perfectly on OS X but fails on windows with access denied errors on .vmem about packer-windows HOT 4 CLOSED

That looks like a Packer / VMware Workstation issue. I haven't see it before, but Access Is Denied is often something that occurs in one of the following scenarios:

• You run into UAC privilege issues
• A file is still in use

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I run into the same issue and start to investigate what's going wrong. With a set PACKER_LOG=1 before calling packer I have found out that packer assumes that the vm is clean, but this is done only with some sleeps. Propably this is not enough to wait for all other VMware processes to exit and release all file handles.

The code to be improved in packer is about here: https://github.com/mitchellh/packer/blob/master/builder/vmware/common/step_shutdown.go#L134

I'll try to fix this.

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You may follow the progress in hashicorp/packer#1267

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Thanks for the link. Closing this for now.

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