Agent type selection (virtIO or ISA)

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Description

• Packer can't communicate with an OpenBSD VM because the agent type isn't set to ISA:

• Current available option (agent) handle only boolean.

Use Case(s)

Add an option to choose the agent type. Or upgrade the agent option to handle the type.

• OpenBSD system works with ISA
• VM creation by Packer have to permit to select the agent type (builder.pkr.hcl)
• This way Packer can send signals and retrieve informations from an OpenBSD system as it does for other systems working with virtIO

Potential configuration

Potential References

Proxmox ISO builder Options:
qemu_agent (boolean) - Enables QEMU Agent option for this VM. When enabled, then qemu-guest-agent must be installed on the guest.

Proxmox CLI Options:
--agent [enabled=]<1|0> [,freeze-fs-on-backup=<1|0>] [,fstrim_cloned_disks=<1|0>] [,type=<virtio|isa>]

Proxmox API Options: