mitchellh/packer — pull request #201 by eedgar (2013-07-19 21:07:33+00:00)
Title: Clone

This pull request is meant to solicit discussion of a proof of concept clone feature built into vmware and virtualbox builders.
This will take the output dir data from one packer run and use it as the source of a second run. This packer run 1 builds the base os. The next run/json will create the customized box.

"builders": [
{
"type": "vmware",
"source_vmx_path": "/output-vmware/ubuntu1210.vmx",
},
{
"type": "virtualbox",
"source_ovf_file": "/output-virtualbox/packer.ovf",
}
]