hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox

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Packer plugin for VritualBox Builder

Stars: 29
Forks: 45
Open beginner issues: 1
Indexed issues: 32

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

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32 open issues indexed

Update options validation for 7.x Open

enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 64/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#180 · 1 comment · Opened May 22, 2026
Orphaned VM on ssh timeout Open

bug

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#167 · Opened Dec 19, 2025
[Feature request] Support Virtualbox VISO Virtual ISO to create packer custom CD Open

enhancement

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#151 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 3, 2025
Packer 1.12.0-alpha1 testing Open

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#143 · Opened Aug 27, 2024
Environment variable LOGNAME or USER does not correspond to effective user id Open

bug invalid stage/waiting-reply

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#130 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 29, 2024
Error when using .VHD as boot device Open

bug

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#123 · Opened Mar 1, 2024
Packer Option "-Force" does not overwrite old VM Open

bug

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#121 · Opened Jan 5, 2024
`packer` hangs for a minute or two when it receives interrupt signal, `code VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE` in debug logs Open

bug invalid stage/waiting-reply

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#92 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 28, 2022
VBoxManage: error: Details: code VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE (0x80bb0007), component MachineWrap, interface IMachine, callee nsISupports Open

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#85 · Opened Oct 14, 2022
Building virtualbox-iso within nested virtualization does not type the boot command Open

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#84 · 2 reactions · Opened Oct 14, 2022
{{.ArtifactId}} is not defined in parallel build Open

bug

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#78 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 10, 2022
Packer SSH communicator `ssh_port` argument value is ignored Open

bug

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#77 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 8, 2022
Please add common arguments documentation to `virtualbox-vm` documentation Open

docs enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#76 · Opened Sep 7, 2022
Error unregistering floppy: VBoxManage error: VBoxManage: error: Could not find a controller named 'Floppy Controller'. Not considering this a critical failure; build will continue. Open

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#73 · 5 reactions · Opened Aug 19, 2022
BUG: base_mac added to bundled Vagrantfiles is causing reuse of MAC addresses. Open

bug

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#64 · Opened May 2, 2022
Exported EFI VM's do not include relevant NVRAM files Open

bug

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#54 · Opened Dec 16, 2021
cd_content is not generating an ISO Open

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#40 · 4 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Sep 9, 2021
If guest_additions_mode is attach and device gets lower "ID" on the IDE/SATA bus than ISO, VM fails to boot Open

bug

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#39 · Opened Sep 2, 2021
Enable virtualbox-* builders to preserve .vdi format when chaining templates so disks can be resized in later stages Open

enhancement track-internal

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#25 · 2 comments · Opened May 19, 2021
Exported VM is missing primary disk and SATA Controller Open

builder/virtualbox

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#15 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
Chef-solo provisioning on Windows Open

bug builder/virtualbox community-supported plugin provisioner/chef windows-guest

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#14 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
Enhancement: floppy_command section similar to boot_command Open

builder/virtualbox enhancement help wanted

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#13 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
Export Image is to small 74KB should be ca 400MB Open

builder/virtualbox question

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#12 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
Feature request: Add SCSI ISO support to virtualbox-iso Open

builder/virtualbox enhancement

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#11 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
Virtualbox-iso: NVMe not exporting properly Open

bug builder/virtualbox need-repro

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#10 · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 16, 2021
Issues with Packer building across subnet. PfSense Open

builder/virtualbox question

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#9 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
virtualbox features Open

builder/virtualbox enhancement help wanted

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#8 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
Enhancement: treat session lock error from VBoxManage as a signal that the VM is already running Open

builder/virtualbox enhancement help wanted

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#7 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
Virtual Box with multiple Nics failed to locate the NAT network Open

builder/virtualbox question

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#6 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
VirtualBox 6.x using Hyper-v (for WSL2) backend breaks SSH/SCP comms Open

bug builder/virtualbox

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#5 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2021
virtualbox-ovf with no EULA acceptance can exit with `VBoxManage: error: Could not find a registered machine` Open

bug builder/virtualbox-ovf track-internal

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

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#3 · Opened Apr 16, 2021
Allow to download files in ovf/ova builder Open

builder/virtualbox-ovf enhancement track-internal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox#2 · Opened Apr 16, 2021

hashicorp/packer-plugin-virtualbox

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