Fiddler4 failure -

[lostInSpaceSomewhere]

goes through building a vm and then at the end it fails:
` virtualbox-iso: Failures
virtualbox-iso: - fiddler4 - fiddler4 not installed. The package was not found with the source(s) listed.
virtualbox-iso: If you specified a particular version and are receiving this message, it is possible that the packa
ge name exists but the version does not.
virtualbox-iso: Version: ""
virtualbox-iso: Source(s): "https://chocolatey.org/api/v2/"
==> virtualbox-iso: Deregistering and deleting VM...
==> virtualbox-iso: Deleting output directory...
Build 'virtualbox-iso' errored: Script exited with non-zero exit status: 1

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> virtualbox-iso: Script exited with non-zero exit status: 1

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.

packer completed with return code: 1
Packer failed. Build failed. Exiting..`

[obilodeau]

tl;dr: remove fiddler4 from your ~/.config/malboxes/config.js

Long answer: Telerik asked Chocolatey to stop distributing Fiddler. See the featured comment here and a complain on their ideas website.

I will remove fiddler4 from the default chocolatey packages.

p.s.: I tried pressuring the company: https://twitter.com/obilodeau/status/956279722530562053 😉

[obilodeau]

Fixed in master but you will still need to update your config for the fix to be propagated in your environment.

[lostInSpaceSomewhere]

yep realized that after the fact. I was able to remove from the profile.
for installed applications (windows), i added a path to the desired app to be included (in this case fiddler) but the build script immediately failed from the malboxes.py.
I saw a piece about switching windows paths from \ to /. shoudl i implement c:\path\to\folder as c:/path/to/folder?

[obilodeau]

What's the output of the failure? How exactly are you trying to include fiddler? Using tools_path or something else?

[lostInSpaceSomewhere]

i placed the following line in my file:

"fiddler4_path": "C:\path\to\location\of\Fiddler",

Error:
PS > malboxes build win10_64_analyst Generating configuration files... Traceback (most recent call last): File "C:\Python36\Scripts\malboxes-script.py", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('malboxes==0.3.1.dev0', 'console_scripts', 'malboxes')() File "c:\python36\lib\site-packages\malboxes\__init__.py", line 21, in main main() File "c:\python36\lib\site-packages\malboxes\malboxes.py", line 603, in main args.func(parser, args) File "c:\python36\lib\site-packages\malboxes\malboxes.py", line 390, in build config, packer_tmpl = prepare_config(args.template) File "c:\python36\lib\site-packages\malboxes\malboxes.py", line 193, in prepare_config config = load_config(config_file, template) File "c:\python36\lib\site-packages\malboxes\malboxes.py", line 216, in load_config config = json.loads(jsmin(config_file.read())) File "c:\python36\lib\json\__init__.py", line 354, in loads return _default_decoder.decode(s) File "c:\python36\lib\json\decoder.py", line 339, in decode obj, end = self.raw_decode(s, idx=_w(s, 0).end()) File "c:\python36\lib\json\decoder.py", line 355, in raw_decode obj, end = self.scan_once(s, idx) json.decoder.JSONDecodeError: Invalid \escape: line 1 column 460 (char 459)

as soon as i comment out that line im good to go.

[obilodeau]

Two things here:

1. json is picky about trailing commas. If you place that line at the end of the file it won't work because of the trailing comma. That's why there is this thing here.

2. fiddler4_path is not a valid attribute for malboxes. Even if you can get past the JSON decode error it will not do anything. If you really need to install fiddler and can't afford to do it manually afterwards then building a custom profile and that uses a powershell inline script would be the way.