vsphere-iso: error creating vm: Invalid configuration for device '2'.

[mikemadeja]

Overview of the Issue

When trying to deploy more than one drive on the same controller with vsphere-iso, I get "vsphere-iso: error creating vm: Invalid configuration for device '2'."

The only way around this is declaring a new disk_controller_type for each hard drive. What I found out with this resolution is if I try to make a hard drive share the controller, the device 'x', increments by 1. Something seems off with how controllers are deployed. Is it even possible to have one controller but multiple disks with paravirtual?

Reproduction Steps

Declare "disk_controller_type": ["pvscsi"]

Then call for two hard drives under storage. They should be default use Index 0 if I read it correctly.

"storage": [
{
"disk_size": 102400,
"disk_thin_provisioned": true
},
{
"disk_size": 10240,
"disk_thin_provisioned": true
}
],

Steps to reproduce this issue

Packer version

From 1.6.6

Simplified Packer Buildfile

https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/sfWdcmVMKT/

Operating system and Environment details

Windows 10 Enterprise

Log Fragments and crash.log files

What I see is in VCenter is the same error
"Invalid configuration for device '2'."

[sylviamoss]

Same as #10430

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