Add support for disk-based deployment mode for SLES 15

[tenthirtyam]

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Description

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 was introduced to the project in the v22.07 release with only support for HTTP-based deployment only.

This issue will track the an enhancement for disk-based deployment support.

Use Case(s)

Support disk-based deployment.

Potential Configuration

To be determined.

References

CHANGELOG:

packer-examples-for-vsphere/CHANGELOG.md

Lines 64 to 67 in b8de167

	> **Note**
	>
	> - Supports 15.3 / 15 Service Pack 3. 15.4 planned.
	> - HTTP-based deployment only. Disk-based deployment planned.

#227.

Mentions

cc @gcblack

[tenthirtyam]

Discovery Context

1. Ensure the the locals for the data_source_command includes the correct the disk -based data source option for kickstart to use the methods mentions earlier in the thread, but retain the http -based methods as the default.

Initial investigation assumes the following.

data_source_command:

locals {
   # ... excluded for brevity ...
  data_source_content = {
    "/autoinst.xml" = templatefile("${abspath(path.root)}/data/autoinst.pkrtpl.hcl", {
      build_username           = var.build_username
      build_password           = var.build_password
      build_password_encrypted = var.build_password_encrypted
      scc_email                = var.scc_email
      scc_code                 = var.scc_code
      vm_guest_os_language     = var.vm_guest_os_language
      vm_guest_os_keyboard     = var.vm_guest_os_keyboard
      vm_guest_os_timezone     = var.vm_guest_os_timezone
    })
  }
  data_source_command = var.common_data_source == "http" ? " autoyast=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/autoinst.xml" : " autoyast=device://sr1/autoinst.xml"
   # ... excluded for brevity ...
}

2. The boot_command must be modified to mount the .iso based on the var.common_data_source != http (disk). For example:

  boot_command = [
    # ... unknown...
    "${local.data_source_command}",
    # ... unknown...
  ]

Ryan Johnson
Senior Staff Solutions Architect | Product Engineering @ VMware, Inc.

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