ZTP server error: Failed creating vmware driver

[eeasy77]

C:\Users\lab1\packer-ztpserver>create-ztpserver.py -H esxi -o ubuntu -u root -e
192.168.3.254 -p datastore2/ztpserver -i net_Vlan0
Parsing arguments for ESXi installation:

• Host:192.168.3.254
• Datastore Path:datastore2/ztpserver
• VM Network:net_Vlan0
  Enter ESXi host password:
  Tailoring install for a 32 bit windows environment
  Looking for hypervisor libraries
  Packer not found - install it
  Searching C:\Users\lab1 for packer-bin...
  Found file here:C:\Users\lab1
  packer-bin already exists, no need to download again.
  Unzipping C:\Users\lab1\packer-bin.zip...
  Unzipped successfully to C:\Users\lab1\packer-bin
  Updated path to be:C:\Python27;C:\Python27\Scripts;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel
  \iCLS Client;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows
  ;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program
  Files\Intel\WiFi\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon;C:\Pr
  ogram Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x8
  6)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(
  R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Manage
  ment Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd;C:\Users\lab1\packer-b
  in
  Packer installed!
  Using VM name ztps-ubuntu_20170328_163445
  Creating VM with user lab1
  ←[93m
  ##############################################
  WARNING: DO NOT TYPE IN VIRTUAL MACHINE WINDOW
  ##############################################
  ←[0m
  esxi-iso output will be in this color.

Build 'esxi-iso' errored: Failed creating VMware driver: Unable to initialize an
y driver for this platform. The errors
from each driver are shown below. Please fix at least one driver
to continue:

• dial tcp: lookup '192.168.3.254': getaddrinfow: No such host is known.

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> esxi-iso: Failed creating VMware driver: Unable to initialize any driver for
this platform. The errors
from each driver are shown below. Please fix at least one driver
to continue:

• dial tcp: lookup '192.168.3.254': getaddrinfow: No such host is known.

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
Return code:1
Packer install failed!!!
Please copy error ouput and raise an issue at https://github.com/arista-eosplus/
packer-ztpserver/issues with your console output.

[jerearista]

Are you using Windows 10? It appears there is an issue reaching your ESXi host. Can you successfully, ping, browse, etc to that host from this system?

[eeasy77]

tried with win 10 and win 7 yes can ping the esx server turned off all fire walls

[eeasy77]

and also check to make sure DNS was configured correctly

[jerearista]

Ok. Could you share the versions of Windows, Python, packer, and ESXi that you are using? I will try to recreate, here. Thank you.

After some further research, please also send the output of 'pip freeze'. This may be related to an issue that the requests lib addressed.

[eeasy77]

using laptop with windows 7 python 2.7.13 packer 0.12 ESXi 5.5