Failure sending boot commands to RHEL/CentOS builds as of Workstation 17.6聽#330
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Overview
VMware ISO builds for RHEL and CentOS (for Broadcom VMware Workstation 17.6+) fail to send in boot_commands or any interactions to the virtual machine during initial boot.
I have been running into this issue consistently with VMware ISO builds - either JSON or HCL build files - since the migration to Broadcom VMware Workstation 17.6. Irrespective of any boot_commands I add, nothing seems to ever register in the VM itself. This means that any version of for BIOS builds or arrow commands and "e" for EFI builds ever register. My build.json files worked for every prior version of VMware Workstation Pro from 15 on and I have seen this issue from older versions of Packer (1.8.6) and the most current version (including the most recent VMware Windows plugin). I have been able to reproduce this issue on three different machines (thus feel this is not a workstation issue). I have stripped my old (then-working) build.json files down to the most rudimentary and it never successfully sends the or anything else to interrupt the build to send in my kickstart files.
Reproduction Steps
Using a very simplified build.json file, run packer build .\CentOS-9-build.json
Note the tab will never register in VMware Workstation (17.6) to interrupt and replace the base instruction with the build's ks.cfg instrutction. CentOS will simply run through its 59s count-down to start and start and subsequently hang on the language selection.
Packer version
1.12.0
Simplified Packer Template
https://github.com/AdamRichman/packer_issue/tree/main
Operating system and Environment details
Windows 11
Version 10.0.26100 Build 26100
Log Fragments and crash.log files
https://github.com/AdamRichman/packer_issue/blob/main/Extended-Build-log.txt