Hangs on "Waiting for the VM to finish booting..." on vagrant up but has loaded about packer-windows HOT 6 CLOSED

Have you tried running with v.gui = true (https://github.com/joefitzgerald/packer-windows/blob/master/vagrantfile-windows_2012_r2.template#L31) in your Vagrantfile that uses the box you've created?

Doing so will probably give you additional insight into the problem.

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I have. What sort of places should I be looking at? The VM is booted and showing its desktop.

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In that case it's highly dependent on:

• Your version of Vagrant
• Your Vagrantfile configuration
• The actual log from your vagrant run

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Excuse my lack of detail. Here is more:

1. Vagrant 1.6.2

2. VagrantFile

   # -*- mode: ruby -*-
   # vi: set ft=ruby :
   
   # Vagrantfile API/syntax version. Don't touch unless you know what you're doing!
   VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
   
   Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
       config.vm.provider "vmware_workstation" do |v|
         v.gui = false
         v.vmx["memsize"] = "2048"
         v.vmx["numvcpus"] = "2"
       end
   
       config.vm.box = "windows-embedded-8.1"
   end

3. Result: the VM seems to loaded fine.

C:\Users\karan_001\code\vagrant\box-1> vagrant up                                             
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'vmware_workstation' provider...                           
==> default: Cloning VMware VM: 'windows-embedded-8.1'. This can take some time...            
==> default: Verifying vmnet devices are healthy...                                           
==> default: Preparing network adapters...                                                    
==> default: Starting the VMware VM...                                                        
==> default: Waiting for the VM to finish booting...                                          

The definition used creating the box was vanilla windows 8.1 JSON from packer-windows, only difference being ISO for Windows Embedded.

I am going to give a try on the Mac with VMWare fusion and add back those results.

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Are you sure WinRM is enabled in your Windows Embedded box? I'm a little concerned that perhaps that component needs to be installed rather than just enabled or that PowerShell needs to be installed first (similar to what occurs for the _core templates) because it's a stripped down install by default.

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That was it. Thanks and 👍 @joefitzgerald

My embedded ISO is setting the default network to public which comes in the way of setting winrm. Will look for a solution. As soon as, I set the network to private, winrm configuration wasn't even needed - it was already running, while vagrant up gracefully returned the console.

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