The terraform-provider-vsphere_v2.4.1_x5.exe plugin crashed!

[nprasadnurani]

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Terraform

Terraform v1.5.3

Terraform Provider

v2.4.1

VMware vSphere

7.0.3.01400

Description

while running terraform import to get the existing infrastruture details it crashed

Affected Resources or Data Sources

resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm" {

name = <VM_NAME>

resource_pool_id = "${data.vsphere_resource_pool.pool.id}"
datastore_id = "${data.vsphere_datacenter.Awesome.id}"

num_cpus = 4
memory = 4096

network_interface {
network_id = data.vsphere_network.network.id

}

disk {
label = "Hard disk 1"
size = 232
thin_provisioned = true
}

}

Terraform Configuration

No resource pool or cluster defined so used the following vpshere_resource_pool to get resouce_id for vpshere_vitrual_machine

data "vsphere_resource_pool" "pool" {
name = "${vsphere_folder.parent.path}/Resources"
datacenter_id = "${data.vsphere_datacenter.Awesome.id}"
}

resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm" {

name = <VM_NAME>

resource_pool_id = "${data.vsphere_resource_pool.pool.id}"
datastore_id = "${data.vsphere_datacenter.Awesome.id}"

num_cpus = 4
memory = 4096

network_interface {
network_id = data.vsphere_network.network.id

}

disk {
label = "Hard disk 1"
size = 232
thin_provisioned = true
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/nprasadnurani/a7690368d7dddcb536a50ce409352a7b

Panic Output

No resource pool or cluster defined so used the following vpshere_resource_pool to get resouce_id for vpshere_vitrual_machine

data "vsphere_resource_pool" "pool" {
name = "${vsphere_folder.parent.path}/Resources"
datacenter_id = "${data.vsphere_datacenter.Awesome.id}"
}

resource "vsphere_virtual_machine" "vm" {

name = <VM_NAME>

resource_pool_id = "${data.vsphere_resource_pool.pool.id}"
datastore_id = "${data.vsphere_datacenter.Awesome.id}"

num_cpus = 4
memory = 4096

network_interface {
network_id = data.vsphere_network.network.id

}

disk {
label = "Hard disk 1"
size = 232
thin_provisioned = true
}

Crash trace

vsphere_virtual_machine.vm: Import prepared!
Prepared vsphere_virtual_machine for import
vsphere_virtual_machine.vm: Refreshing state... [id=4220dd3b-2f07-4d9a-3395-c0a806a81622]
╷
│ Error: Plugin did not respond
│
│ The plugin encountered an error, and failed to respond to the plugin.(*GRPCProvider).ReadResource call. The plugin logs may contain more details.
╵

Stack trace from the terraform-provider-vsphere_v2.4.1_x5.exe plugin:

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal 0xc0000005 code=0x0 addr=0x8 pc=0x17b5274]

goroutine 88 [running]:
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere.resourceVSphereVirtualMachineRead(0x134e17c0, {0x19630a0, 0x136025b8})
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-vsphere/vsphere/resource_vsphere_virtual_machine.go:450 +0x6b4
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/schema.(*Resource).read(0x13888850, {0x1d80500, 0x13602528}, 0x134e17c0, {0x19630a0, 0x136025b8})
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2@v2.26.1/helper/schema/resource.go:712 +0x166
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/schema.(*Resource).RefreshWithoutUpgrade(0x13888850, {0x1d80500, 0x13602528}, 0x135b96c0, {0x19630a0, 0x136025b8})
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2@v2.26.1/helper/schema/resource.go:1015 +0x547
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2/helper/schema.(*GRPCProviderServer).ReadResource(0x1392a010, {0x1d80500, 0x136024c8}, 0x13a0cee0)
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-sdk/v2@v2.26.1/helper/schema/grpc_provider.go:613 +0x4f4
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-go/tfprotov5/tf5server.(*server).ReadResource(0x13930050, {0x1d80500, 0x1345ff38}, 0x13628630)
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-go@v0.14.3/tfprotov5/tf5server/server.go:748 +0x4c5
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-go/tfprotov5/internal/tfplugin5._Provider_ReadResource_Handler({0x1b50ac0, 0x13930050}, {0x1d80500, 0x1345ff38}, 0x13752d40, 0x0)
github.com/hashicorp/terraform-plugin-go@v0.14.3/tfprotov5/internal/tfplugin5/tfplugin5_grpc.pb.go:349 +0x18a
google.golang.org/grpc.(*Server).processUnaryRPC(0x13704360, {0x1d82188, 0x13704000}, 0x13a0a460, 0x13916138, 0x262d1e8, 0x0)
google.golang.org/grpc@v1.51.0/server.go:1340 +0xe22
google.golang.org/grpc.(*Server).handleStream(0x13704360, {0x1d82188, 0x13704000}, 0x13a0a460, 0x0)
google.golang.org/grpc@v1.51.0/server.go:1713 +0xa17
google.golang.org/grpc.(*Server).serveStreams.func1.2()
google.golang.org/grpc@v1.51.0/server.go:965 +0xb1
created by google.golang.org/grpc.(*Server).serveStreams.func1
google.golang.org/grpc@v1.51.0/server.go:963 +0x25f

Error: The terraform-provider-vsphere_v2.4.1_x5.exe plugin crashed!

Expected Behavior

import successful
should have imported the infrastructure details into tfstate

Actual Behavior

The terraform-provider-vsphere_v2.4.1_x5.exe plugin crashed!

Steps to Reproduce

run terraform import vsphere_virtual_machine.vm <VM_PATH>

Environment Details

windows

Screenshots

References

No response

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[ArashTheKID]

Hi, I would like to check on the progress of this issue, got the same problem on my machine.
Case: Creating VM Module
Provider Version: 2.4.1
OS: Windows 11
Environment: WSL2 (no systemd)
Terraform Version: 1.5.2 (via tfenv)
Crash Report::

│ Error: Request cancelled
│
│ The plugin.(*GRPCProvider).ReadResource request was cancelled.
╵

Stack trace from the terraform-provider-vsphere_v2.4.1_x5 plugin:

panic: runtime error: invalid memory address or nil pointer dereference
[signal SIGSEGV: segmentation violation code=0x1 addr=0x10 pc=0xf3a81e]

Cheers,
A.

[ArashTheKID]

Update: Problem solved. In my case, from provider version 2.4.x it is not compatible with vSphere version 6.x. anymore Provider downgrade to 2.3.1 solved the problem, no crashes.

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