Deprecated configuration key: 'iso_checksum_type'. Please call packer fix against your template to update your template

[binarytrails]

Fellow Archer here, got some issues seems to be similar to this one rapid7/metasploitable3#482

Here is a trace:

$ malboxes build win10_x64_analyst
Generating configuration files...
Configuration files are ready
Starting packer to generate the VM
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Error: Failed to prepare build: "virtualbox-iso"

1 error occurred:
	* Deprecated configuration key: 'iso_checksum_type'. Please call `packer fix`
against your template to update your template to be compatible with the current
version of Packer. Visit https://www.packer.io/docs/commands/fix/ for more
detail.





==> Wait completed after 3 microseconds

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
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packer completed with return code: 1
Packer failed. Build failed. Exiting...

Thanks! :)

[Praveen1907]

i am also facing the same issues while i am running a malboxes tool. Any suggestions plz

[Svieg]

Sorry for the delay. have you tried the recommended packer fix command? Your command might also be packer-io fix.

Also, running malboxes with the -d switch will give you more output to debug from and can be really useful to troubleshoot.

If packer fix works, do not hesitate to send a PR so that others can benefit!

[binarytrails]

the command in question to fix it:

packer fix -var-file=/home/$(whoami)/.cache/malboxes/packer_var_file.json /home/$(whoami)/.cache/malboxes/win10_x64_analyst.json > win10_x64_analyst.json.fixed

then, you have to run manually packer build since malboxes is generating and using the configuration:

packer build -var-file=/home/$(whoami)/.cache/malboxes/packer_var_file.json -on-error=abort win10_x64_analyst.json.fixed

still downloading the iso - quite heavy

[acidaniel]

For anyone still running into this issue, there was a PR that Drops the iso_checksum_type & iso_checksum_url fields In favor of simply using iso_checksum that will know what to do. So I simply removed that variable from the variables in the json files and is compiling correctly.

[Svieg]

Thx for the explanation, I created a PR so that everyone should get the fix :)

[obilodeau]

Fix was merged in master. Thanks @Svieg for the fix, @binarytrails for the report and @acidaniel for the precise context.