hyperv-iso: Waiting for WinRM to become available

[Makru]

Hello,

i tried the hyperv-windows-2016-serverstandard-amd64.json, adapted the variables to my enviroment, changed the ports in the powershell files to 5986 and added:
"winrm_use_ssl": true,
"winrm_insecure": true,

The result is "==> hyperv-iso: Waiting for WinRM to become available" with that error in the Logfile:

[ERROR] WinRM connection err: unknown error Post https://169.254.171.97:5986/wsman: dial tcp 169.254.171.97:5986: connectex: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

The Host is Hyper-V host is Windows2012R2.
What could be the problem?
Many thanks in advance.

Regards Mathias

[andrewbbrown]

@Makru - If you're getting an IP address that starts with 169.254, it means that your virtual machine that was just created has been configured to use DHCP (get an ip address from the DHCP server on the network ) and is not getting any ip address from the network. I had this issue earlier and quickly found that my issue was that I attached the VM to a network that did not have a DHCP server... once I changed the network to attach the VM to, choosing one that was internet accessible, it worked just fine. (another idea after you fix your network - make sure you're using a consistent username/password for winrm, since you'll get the same error message but a different message in the logfile)