Error when creating a Windows stemcell with stembuild construct: "winrm connection event"

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

Issue/Introduction

When creating a Windows stemcell with stembuild construct command, you may notice the following error message in the output:

winrm connection event: unknown error Post "http://10.213.43.232:5985/wsman": dial tcp 10.213.43.232:5985: connectex: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond

Environment

Product Version: 2.10

Resolution

This message means a disconnection between the machine running the stembuild construct command and the Windows VM target OS. You can safely ignore this message, specifically the last line of the stembuild construct output:

VM has been shutdown. Run `stembuild package` to finish building the stemcell.

At this stage, the Windows VM target OS should be in power off state, and you can proceed to the stembuild package.

Reference

• Creating a Windows Stemcell for vSphere Using stembuild