terraform crashes while running 'terraform refresh' after powering off VSphere VM.

[hashibot]

This issue was originally opened by @sripadkollur as hashicorp/terraform#10998. It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original body of the issue is below.

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Terraform Version

Terraform v0.8.2

Affected Resource(s)

Please list the resources as a list, for example:

• Multiple Vsphere resources

Terraform Configuration Files

{
    "provider": {
        "vsphere": {
            "user": "root",
            "password": "****",
            "vsphere_server": "X.X.X.X",
            "allow_unverified_ssl": true,
            "alias": "my_alias"
        }
    },
    "variable": {
        "count": {
            "description": "Number of VMs to create",
            "default": 1
        }
    },
    "resource": {
        "vsphere_virtual_machine": {
            "vsphere_vm": {
                "provider": "vsphere.my_alias",
                "count": "${var.count}",
                "name": "vsphere-vm-${count.index}",
                "vcpu": 2,
                "memory": 4096,
                "datacenter": "MY_DATA_CENTER",
                "cluster": "Dev_Cluster",
                "network_interface": {
                    "label": "MY_NETWORK"
                },
                "disk": {
                    "template": "Demo2_Windows_Template2",
                    "datastore": "SharedDatastore"
                },
                "dns_suffixes": ["mylab.local","mylab.remote"],
                "time_zone": "190"
            }
        }
    }
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/sripadkollur/19799526689746dc45ada3c4cd7eb889

Panic Output

https://gist.github.com/sripadkollur/177e2eb41ff3ded1374b3d072a229fa9

Expected Behavior

The 'terraform refresh' command should not crash, if there is any issue it should display valid error message.

Actual Behavior

Terraform is crashing.

Steps to Reproduce

Please list the steps required to reproduce the issue, for example:

1. create a VM on Vsphere provider(May happen on other providers as well . I did not check)
2. Add a virtual NIC to running Vsphere VM using Vcenter or some other vmware tool.
3. Power Off the VM
   4 Run terraform refresh

Important Factoids

VMware vCenter server version 5.5.0
vSphere client version 5.5.0

References

None

[vancluever]

Hello!

Looking at the crash logs, and judging from the nature of the issue, I think this should be fixed now that #129 has been merged. If there is anyone watching this issue that has the capabilities to build a custom provider binary can give it a go, that'd be great.

If course, if this does not fix this issue specifically, please open a new issue and reference this one.

Thanks again and sorry for the delays!