hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu

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Packer plugin for QEMU Builder

Stars: 85
Forks: 59
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 57

Dominant language: Go
License: MPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Aug 17, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 17, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: good first issue help wanted
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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57 open issues indexed

1.1.5 pins the cpu when restarting a machine Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#246 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 21, 2026
Packer cache doesn't work with compressed ISO Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#235 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 19, 2026
[ARM64/UEFI] Reboot loop after installation and missing USB HID devices block automated builds on Apple Silicon Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#234 · Opened Apr 10, 2026
Plugin does not support EFI firmware in qcow2 format Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#225 · Opened Oct 13, 2025
Add support for additional QEMU command line parameters Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#221 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 5, 2025
`iso_skip_cache` fails for images on local filesystem Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#220 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 5, 2025
Incorrect documentation about optional shutdown command Open

bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#219 · Opened Sep 5, 2025
packer dhcp gives a different ip after reboot and doesn't detect it Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#218 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 26, 2025
Make ISO optional and allow import of local raw image Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#214 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jul 31, 2025
QEMU Builder Fails EFI Boot on Ubuntu 24.04 Due to Missing OVMF Firmware Files Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#217 · 5 comments · 6 reactions · Opened Mar 15, 2025
Packer 1.12.0-alpha1 testing Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#180 · Opened Aug 27, 2024
Unable to boot Windows Server 2022 in UEFI mode on RHEL 8.10 - always boots in Legacy BIOS - no errors Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#177 · 8 comments · Opened Aug 2, 2024
QEMU builder with HVF accelerator support Open

enhancement stage/needs-verification stage/waiting-reply

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#174 · 4 comments · Opened May 10, 2024
QEMU packer build is unable to start the windows OS ISO Open

bug stage/needs-investigation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#168 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 19, 2024
Breakpoints in boot steps Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#164 · Opened Feb 12, 2024
Support multiple accelerators Open

enhancement good first issue

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#160 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2023
packer continues to build even if iso_checksum_url download fails Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#155 · Opened Aug 28, 2023
Blinking cursor with Debian 12 auto-install on macOS M1 Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#153 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 24, 2023
The debian-efi example VM throws you into the EFI shell once built. Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#148 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2023
sata disk_interface is unable to build Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#146 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 27, 2023
qemu-system-aarch64 fails to launch iso on arm64 platform using the same packer .pkr.hcl configuration settings which do boot the iso on qemu-system-x86_64 Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#145 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2023
Qemu not launching VNC Viewer to connect to VM even with explicit setting 'headless = false' Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#144 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 11, 2023
Allow interpolation of build variables in http_content Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#139 · 12 reactions · Opened May 25, 2023
Add warning about differences from the shell when using qemuargs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#138 · Opened May 9, 2023
Allow both cdrom & disk to use the virtio interface Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#136 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2023
CD generation for user-data fails on macos Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#133 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Mar 22, 2023
net_bridge and WinRM communicator Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#131 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 16, 2023
Packer Qemu Rocky9 ssh connection refused Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#126 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 21, 2023
Incorrect booted image after creating Qemu image Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#125 · Opened Feb 14, 2023
Add HCP Packer support for the QEMU builders Open

enhancement sync to jira

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#111 · 5 comments · Opened Nov 26, 2022
Provisioner file fails to upload Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#106 · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 4, 2022
Packer 1.8.x regression: qemu builds fail due to missing output-qemu/packer-qemu Open

bug builder/qemu regression

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#84 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Aug 9, 2022
Add ability to set MAC address of adapter Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#69 · 3 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 13, 2022
Allow compressing images with backing files Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#64 · 2 reactions · Opened Feb 16, 2022
Support redirects with iso_url & iso_checksum Open

bug stage/waiting-on-upstream

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#63 · 5 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2022
Support for architectures besides x86_64? Open

enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#61 · 8 reactions · Opened Jan 16, 2022
Noisier errors when using -drive or -device in qemuargs Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#58 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 8, 2021
allow to restart from a given check point Open

enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#42 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2021
No box Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#38 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2021
Additional Resources for QEMU builder [ file download datasource ?] Open

enhancement stage/thinking track-internal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#33 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 4, 2021
Packer cannot send boot commands to QEMU Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#28 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 1, 2021
Qemu builder doesn't work on rhel8-based systems Open

bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#22 · 2 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 22, 2021
add support for sata disk_interface in QEMU builder Open

builder/qemu enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#18 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 19, 2021
qemu builder - mount iso as disk, not cdrom Open

bug builder/qemu

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#17 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 19, 2021
PACKER_LOG_PATH file doesn't reveal when QEMU segfaults. Open

builder/qemu enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#16 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 19, 2021
Kernel and initrd source for QEMU builder Open

builder/qemu enhancement stage/thinking

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#15 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 19, 2021
Refuse to run when attempting to shrink a qcow2 image Open

builder/qemu enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#14 · Opened Apr 19, 2021
Feature: provide Libvirt domain XML to QEMU builder to match specific hardware configuration Open

builder/qemu enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#13 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 19, 2021
qemu builder vs qemu 3.0 device syntax needs more fixing Open

builder/qemu

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#12 · Opened Apr 19, 2021
[Feature] Add remote target support for QEMU builder Open

builder/qemu enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-qemu#10 · 1 comment · 7 reactions · Opened Apr 19, 2021

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