`vsphere-clone`: API timeout waiting for IP but one IP was found

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Overview of the Issue

While trying to use vsphere-clone, it always waits for the ip_wait_timeout = "3m" amount, then shows this warning:

[WARN] API timeout waiting for IP but one IP was found. Using IP: 10.11.0.25

Although the vSphere UI shows the IP address before that. So it seems something is failing, because the packer plugin should have detected the IP before the ip_wait_timeout elapsed, but the packer log does not show any more than:

2024/11/22 13:59:11 packer-plugin-vsphere_v1.4.2_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/22 13:59:11 [INFO] Waiting for IP, up to total timeout: 3m0s, settle timeout: 5s
2024/11/22 13:59:11 ui: �[1;32m==> vsphere-clone.windows: Waiting for IP...�[0m
2024/11/22 14:02:11 packer-plugin-vsphere_v1.4.2_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/22 14:02:11 [WARN] API timeout waiting for IP but one IP was found. Using IP: 10.11.0.25
2024/11/22 14:02:11 ui: �[1;32m==> vsphere-clone.windows: Using SSH communicator to connect: 10.11.0.25�[0m
2024/11/22 14:02:11 packer-plugin-vsphere_v1.4.2_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/22 14:02:11 [INFO] Waiting for SSH, up to timeout: 1h0m0s
2024/11/22 14:02:11 ui: �[1;32m==> vsphere-clone.windows: Waiting for SSH to become available...�[0m
2024/11/22 14:02:11 packer-plugin-vsphere_v1.4.2_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/22 14:02:11 [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 10.11.0.25:22...
2024/11/22 14:02:11 packer-plugin-vsphere_v1.4.2_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/22 14:02:11 [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2024/11/22 14:02:11 packer-plugin-vsphere_v1.4.2_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/22 14:02:11 [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2024/11/22 14:02:11 packer-plugin-vsphere_v1.4.2_x5.0_linux_amd64 plugin: 2024/11/22 14:02:11 [DEBUG] handshake complete!

Reproduction Steps

Please provide the steps to reproduce the issue.

Packer Version

Packer v1.11.2

Plugin Version and Builders

1.4.2

• vsphere-iso
• vsphere-clone

VMware vSphere Version

8.0.1

Guest Operating System

Windows 11.

Simplified Packer Buildfile

packer {
  required_plugins {
    vsphere = {
      version = "1.4.2"
      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/vsphere"
    }
  }
}

source "vsphere-clone" "windows" {
  insecure_connection      = true
  vcenter_server           = var.vsphere_host
  username                 = var.vsphere_username
  password                 = var.vsphere_password
  cluster                  = var.vsphere_cluster
  resource_pool            = var.vsphere_esxi_host
  datastore                = var.vsphere_datastore
  template                 = var.vsphere_template
  folder                   = var.vsphere_folder
  vm_name                  = var.vsphere_vm_name
  ip_wait_timeout          = "3m"
  communicator             = "ssh"
  ssh_username             = var.provision_username
  ssh_password             = var.provision_password
  ssh_timeout              = "1h"
  ssh_file_transfer_method = "sftp"
  configuration_parameters = {
    "guestinfo.init" = jsonencode({
      builtinAdministratorUsername = var.provision_username
      builtinAdministratorPassword = var.provision_password
    })
  }
}

build {
  sources = ["source.vsphere-clone.windows"]

  provisioner "powershell" {
    inline = [
      "Write-Host 'Hello, World!'",
    ]
  }
}

Operating System and Environment Details

Windows 11 24H2 Enterprise.

Log Fragments and crash.log Files

N/A