hashicorp / hashicorp/packer-plugin-vagrant
valid box file not generated when using artifacts from 'artifice' post-processor with provider_override="hyperv"
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Description
#### Overview of the Issue
When this post processor is used with artifacts from the 'artifice' post processor along with the provider_override="hyperv", the resulting .box output file does not seem to be valid.
#### Reproduction Steps
Prerequisite:
1. following Hyper V vm source files :

2. packer with the necessary plugins installed
3. Execute : packer build
- Expected behaviour: a working vagrant box (.box file) is generated from the hyperv source files
- Observed behaviour:
- An incomplete .box file file is generated (see attached file:packer_example_hyperv_amd64.box in the zip file ).
[packer_example_hyperv_amd64.zip](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-vagrant/files/15332676/packer_example_hyperv_amd64.zip)
- No Hyper-v VM artifacts are present in the .box file. It only contains the vagrantfile and the metadata.json. Also the input
artifacts are being copied to 'c:\users\' folder which was not expected behaviour.
### Plugin and Packer version


### Simplified Packer Buildfile
file: vagrant_post_processor_hyperv.pkr.hcl
``` packer {
required_plugins {
vagrant = {
version = "~> 1"
source = "github.com/hashicorp/vagrant"
}
}
}
source "null" "example" {
communicator = "none"
}
build {
sources = [
"source.null.example"
]
post-processors {
post-processor "artifice" {
files = [
"output-windows10/Virtual Hard Disks/VnV-W10-001.vhdx",
"output-windows10/Virtual Machines/4643F645-2EDB-4DD5-8E17-18A7DE59893C.vmcx",
"output-windows10/Virtual Machines/4643F645-2EDB-4DD5-8E17-18A7DE59893C.vmgs",
"output-windows10/Virtual Machines/4643F645-2EDB-4DD5-8E17-18A7DE59893C.VMRS",
"output-windows10/Virtual Machines/box.xml"
]
}
post-processor "vagrant" {
keep_input_artifact = true
provider_override = "hyperv"
}
}
}
```
### Operating system and Environment details


### Log Fragments and crash.log files
See attached log file from the CMD prompt ( packer_build_logt.txt) for the packer build:
[packer_build_logt.txt](https://github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-vagrant/files/15332713/packer_build_logt.txt)
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the simplified vagrant_post_processor_hyperv.pkr.hcl buildfile and the attached packer_build_logt.txt, then trace how artifacts from the artifice post-processor are handled when provider_override is hyperv. Reproduce the build and verify that the generated .box contains the Hyper-V artifacts rather than only the Vagrantfile and metadata.json.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100