502 Bad Gateway | Error ISO Download

[bursaiskender]

machine@root # malboxes build win10_64_analyst

Generating configuration files...
Configuration files are ready
Starting packer to generate the VM

virtualbox-iso output will be in this color.

==> virtualbox-iso: Downloading or copying Guest additions
virtualbox-iso: Downloading or copying: file:///usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso
==> virtualbox-iso: Downloading or copying ISO
virtualbox-iso: Downloading or copying: file:///14393.0.160715-1616.RS1_RELEASE_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_X64FRE_EN-US.ISO
virtualbox-iso: Error downloading: open /14393.0.160715-1616.RS1_RELEASE_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_X64FRE_EN-US.ISO: no such file or directory
virtualbox-iso: Downloading or copying: http://care.dlservice.microsoft.com/dl/download/2/5/4/254230E8-AEA5-43C5-94F6-88CE222A5846/14393.0.160715-1616.RS1_RELEASE_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_X64FRE_EN-US.ISO
virtualbox-iso: Error downloading: Error making HTTP GET request: 502 Bad Gateway
==> virtualbox-iso: ISO download failed.
Build 'virtualbox-iso' errored: ISO download failed.

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> virtualbox-iso: ISO download failed.

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

packer completed with return code: 1
Packer failed. Build failed. Exiting...

[Svieg]

Not sure why you tagged #97 as duplicate of this one as it was created before this one and therefore this one is the duplicate. The issue is that all trial ISO links are now returning Bad Gateway errors and we need to find new links/source for them as I explained in the previous issue.

[Wenzel]

Hi,
I already faced this issue before, and i think it's a bug related to Packer itself.

Use wget to download the ISO, and then rename it.

[Wenzel]

I opened an issue on Packer: hashicorp/packer#6560

[Svieg]

Wget seems to work, thx! Blacklisting Packer's User-Agent is weird. Hope it gets resolved soon.

[lyfak]

What do you do exactly as a workaround?

[Wenzel]

@Maximevilla wget the iso and put in your packer_cache, named as a sha256 of the url (IIRC)

source: hashicorp/packer#1826 (comment)

[bursaiskender]

So thanks Wenzel @Wenzel :*

[Svieg]

@Wenzel According to the issue you opened (hashicorp/packer#6560) it seems resolved. I just tested it with the win7_32_analyst image and it seems to be still an issue, could you confirm on your end?

[Wenzel]

@Svieg the issue is not resolved yet.
Where did you see a resolution ? 🤔

If you change the URL in your packer templates, it will work,
but i don't want to force everyone to update their repo just because Microsoft is filtering the User-Agent...

[Svieg]

I saw this comment and I didn't understand that you changed the URL to make it work: hashicorp/packer#6560 (comment). I understand that it's a pain that MS does that but I wouldn't mind changing the templates for Malboxes. So we should only change it to: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/5/4/254230E8-AEA5-43C5-94F6-88CE222A5846/14393.0.160715-1616.RS1_RELEASE_CLIENTENTERPRISEEVAL_OEMRET_X64FRE_EN-US.ISO ,etc?

[Wenzel]

@Svieg , yes it should work.

Just test it before committing any changes

[obilodeau]

As a workaround, I recommend that you download the ISOs with wget and that you specify iso_path in your ~/.config/malboxes/config.js (platform specific).

...
"iso_path": "/home/olivier/tools/isos/",
...

[obilodeau]

I added a link to the ISOs so you can download them easily and then use iso_path like I said in the comment above. This has the added benefit of avoiding the expensive download over and over.

https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes/blob/master/docs/windows-licenses.adoc#trial

[Bromulux]

The added URLs are deprecated, Microsoft seems to have changed their way to offer their isos ( https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-10-enterprise ). You still can manually download the iso and provide the path as a workaround.

[Wenzel]

@LacroixEtienne the URLs pointing to care.dlservice are dead:
joefitzgerald/packer-windows#276

[Bromulux]

@Wenzel I must have missed this, thank you.

[obilodeau]

Windows 10 URLs are fixed. Windows 7 trials can be downloaded using a browser, I'm not sure about packer. In any case, the URLs are all documented here: https://github.com/GoSecure/malboxes/blob/master/docs/windows-licenses.adoc#trial

You can always download and use the iso_path configuration as a workaround. See here.