Recently, we started exploring Rockylinux-8.5 for our sever application.
We have a openstack platform, for creating instance and loading our server application on to it for testing.
So, we got a Git repo and Jenkins job for creating the openstack image.
With python qemu building and rocky linux -8.5 minimal iso
[2022-05-12T14:54:05.935Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: https://download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/8/isos/x86_64/Rocky-8.5-x86_64-minimal.iso?checksum=sha256%3A4eb2ae6b06876205f2209e4504110fe4115b37540c21ecfbbc0ebc11084cb779 => /home/buildagent/jenkins/workspace/ly_openstack-image-creator_PR-32/packer_cache/8910a1d23f7ec7a7baa950c5620a67cac9e32e63.iso
[2022-05-12T14:54:05.935Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Creating required virtual machine disks
[2022-05-12T14:54:06.193Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Starting HTTP server on port 8515
[2022-05-12T14:54:06.194Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Found port for communicator (SSH, WinRM, etc): 3398.
[2022-05-12T14:54:06.194Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Looking for available port between 5900 and 6000 on 127.0.0.1
[2022-05-12T14:54:06.194Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Starting VM, booting from CD-ROM
[2022-05-12T14:54:06.194Z] rockylinux85Minimal: The VM will be run headless, without a GUI. If you want to
[2022-05-12T14:54:06.194Z] rockylinux85Minimal: view the screen of the VM, connect via VNC without a password to
[2022-05-12T14:54:06.194Z] rockylinux85Minimal: vnc://127.0.0.1:5998
[2022-05-12T14:54:06.194Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Overriding defaults Qemu arguments with QemuArgs...
[2022-05-12T14:54:08.101Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Waiting 5s for boot...
[2022-05-12T14:54:13.384Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Connecting to VM via VNC (127.0.0.1:5998)
[2022-05-12T14:54:13.384Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Typing the boot command over VNC...
[2022-05-12T14:54:23.357Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Using ssh communicator to connect: 127.0.0.1
[2022-05-12T14:54:23.357Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Waiting for SSH to become available...
[2022-05-12T15:25:15.911Z] Cannot contact kvm-dev-node-ansible: hudson.remoting.RequestAbortedException: java.io.IOException: Unexpected termination of the channel
[2022-05-12T15:54:32.014Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Timeout waiting for SSH.
[2022-05-12T15:54:32.014Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Deleting output directory...
[2022-05-12T15:54:32.014Z] Build 'rockylinux85Minimal' errored: Timeout waiting for SSH.
But same works and could able to ssh connect when using dvd iso
[2022-05-16T13:48:51.432Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Connecting to VM via VNC (127.0.0.1:5935)
[2022-05-16T13:48:51.432Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Typing the boot command over VNC...
[2022-05-16T13:49:01.397Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Using ssh communicator to connect: 127.0.0.1
[2022-05-16T13:49:01.397Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Waiting for SSH to become available...
[2022-05-16T14:00:23.141Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Connected to SSH!
[2022-05-16T14:00:23.141Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Pausing 10s before the next provisioner...
[2022-05-16T14:00:33.099Z] ==> rockylinux85Minimal: Provisioning with shell script: /tmp/packer-shell137273861
This is my first instance working with rockylinux and not sure what is wrong with minimal vs dvd.