added Ubuntu 16.04 files

.dccache

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-{}
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packer-vsphere-iso-linux/Ubuntu-16.04/.dccache

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+{}

packer-vsphere-iso-linux/Ubuntu-16.04/README.md

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+# Packer Template for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
+
+To create the template execute **packer build -force -debug -on-error=ask -var-file variables.json ubuntu16-thick.json** for debugging.
+
+Or execute **packer build -force -var-file variables.json ubuntu16-thick.json** for regular deployment.

packer-vsphere-iso-linux/Ubuntu-16.04/sample-preseed.cfg

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+# Setting the locales, country
+# Supported locales available in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED
+d-i debian-installer/language string en
+d-i debian-installer/country string us
+d-i debian-installer/locale string en_US.UTF-8
+
+# Keyboard setting
+d-i console-setup/ask_detect boolean false
+d-i keyboard-configuration/layoutcode string us
+d-i keyboard-configuration/xkb-keymap us
+d-i keyboard-configuration/modelcode string pc105
+
+# User creation
+d-i passwd/user-fullname string username
+d-i passwd/username string username
+d-i passwd/user-password password xxxx
+d-i passwd/user-password-again password xxxx
+d-i user-setup/allow-password-weak boolean true
+
+# Disk and Partitioning setup
+d-i partman-auto/disk string /dev/sda
+d-i partman-auto/method string regular
+d-i partman-partitioning/confirm_write_new_label boolean true
+d-i partman/choose_partition select finish
+d-i partman/confirm boolean true
+d-i partman/confirm_nooverwrite boolean true
+
+# Set root password
+d-i passwd/root-login boolean true
+d-i passwd/root-password password SecretPass
+d-i passwd/root-password-again password SecretPass
+
+# Package installations
+d-i pkgsel/include string open-vm-tools openssh-server net-tools perl vim
+# d-i pkgsel/include string open-vm-tools openssh-server net-tools perl perl-modules-5.26
+
+d-i grub-installer/only_debian boolean true
+
+d-i preseed/late_command string \
+    echo 'username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' > /target/etc/sudoers.d/username ; \
+    in-target chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/username ;
+
+d-i finish-install/reboot_in_progress note

packer-vsphere-iso-linux/Ubuntu-16.04/ubuntu16-thick.json

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+{
+  "builders": [
+    {
+      "type": "vsphere-iso",
+
+      "vcenter_server": "{{user `vcenter-server`}}",
+      "username": "{{user `vcenter-username`}}",
+      "password": "{{user `vcenter-password`}}",
+      "insecure_connection": "true",
+      "datacenter": "{{user `datacenter`}}",
+
+      "vm_name": "{{user `vm-name`}}",
+
+      "datastore": "{{user `datastore`}}",
+      "folder": "{{user `folder`}}",
+      "host": "{{user `host`}}",
+      "cluster": "{{user `cluster`}}",
+
+      "convert_to_template": "true",
+
+
+      "network_adapters": [
+        {
+          "network": "{{user `network`}}",
+          "network_card": "vmxnet3"
+        }
+      ],
+
+      "boot_order": "disk,cdrom",
+
+      "guest_os_type": "ubuntu64Guest",
+
+      "ssh_username": "{{user `ssh-username`}}",
+      "ssh_password": "{{user `ssh-password`}}",
+
+      "CPUs": "{{user `vm-cpu-num`}}",
+      "RAM": "{{user `vm-mem-size`}}",
+      "RAM_reserve_all": true,
+
+      "disk_controller_type": "pvscsi",
+      "storage": [
+        {
+          "disk_size": "{{user `vm-disk-size`}}",
+          "disk_thin_provisioned": false
+        }
+      ],
+
+      "iso_urls": "{{user `iso-url`}}",
+      "iso_checksum": "{{user `iso-checksum-type`}}:{{user `iso-checksum`}}",
+
+      "floppy_files": ["./preseed.cfg"],
+      "boot_command": [
+        "<enter><wait><f6><wait><esc><wait>",
+        "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
+        "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
+        "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
+        "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
+        "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
+        "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
+        "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
+        "<bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs><bs>",
+        "<bs><bs><bs>",
+        "/install/vmlinuz",
+        " initrd=/install/initrd.gz",
+        " priority=critical",
+        " locale=en_US",
+        " file=/media/preseed.cfg",
+        "<enter>"
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+  "provisioners": [
+    {
+      "type": "shell",
+      "inline": [
+        "sudo rm /etc/machine-id", 
+        "sudo touch /etc/machine-id",
+        "echo 'Packer Template Build -- Complete'"
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

packer-vsphere-iso-linux/Ubuntu-16.04/variables-json.txt

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+{
+  "vm-name": "Ubuntu-1604-Template",
+
+  "vcenter-server":"192.168.x.x",
+  "vcenter-username":"[email protected]",
+  "vcenter-password": "xxxxx",
+
+  "datacenter": "Datacenter",
+  "datastore": "Datastore2_NonSSD",
+  "folder": "Templates",
+  "cluster": "Cluster01",
+  "network": "VM Network",
+
+  "vm-cpu-num": "1",
+  "vm-mem-size": "1024",
+  "vm-disk-size": "10240",
+
+  "ssh-username": "username",
+  "ssh-password": "xxxx",
+
+  "iso-url": "http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/ubuntu-16.04.7-server-amd64.iso",
+  "iso-checksum": "b23488689e16cad7a269eb2d3a3bf725d3457ee6b0868e00c8762d3816e25848",
+  "iso-checksum-type": "sha256"
+}

packer-vsphere-iso-linux/Ubuntu-18.04/variables-json.txt

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   "vm-disk-size": "10240",
 
   "ssh-username": "username",
-  "ssh-password": "pass",
+  "ssh-password": "xxxx",
 
   "iso-url": "http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/18.04/release/ubuntu-18.04.5-server-amd64.iso",
   "iso-checksum": "8c5fc24894394035402f66f3824beb7234b757dd2b5531379cb310cedfdf0996",