Configurable Timeout for WaitForIP

[wolfganghuse]

/kind bug

Windows Machine with DHCP needs more than the fixed 5min Timeout to report IP to PrismCentral.
Create an configuration option for timeout

[DiscoRiver]

I'll take a poke at this, shouldn't take long. Just so I'm clear, are you referring to this timeout, which seems to be 5 seconds, not 5 minutes?

https://github.com/nutanix-cloud-native/packer-plugin-nutanix/blob/main/builder/nutanix/driver.go#L465

I couldn't find any other references that might apply to this, but feel free to redirect if I've missed something.

[wolfganghuse]

There is a loop running 60 times, with 5seconds wait each, which results in 5min fixed.

[DiscoRiver]

I looked into how we might slot a configurable timeout into this, and I think the best approach would be to add an additional step to wait for the IP, rather than bundling it within the create step. Similar to this;

https://github.com/jetbrains-infra/packer-builder-vsphere/blob/bd2040307ce568a94887e41c644e20fa533f0fc7/common/step_wait_for_ip.go

I don't have enough experience with this code, or the cycles to implement right now, but I think this would be the best approach based on my limited research.

Good luck!

[wolfganghuse]

@DiscoRiver Thanks for research, this is indeed a good solution. However, lets raise the fixed timeout now to 15min as a workaround for slow Windows Deployments until we implement the WaitForIP Step.

[tuxtof]

@DiscoRiver you can test with v0.4.0