-redir is deprecated and missing on some versions of QEMU, using -netdev instead which is recommended. Removing M letter from Memory flag as QEMU now assumes this value is always in MB and errors out if you pass the M as a part of the command

Changing machinetype default to PC instead of PC-1.0 which seems to be a saner default that works on more platforms. RedHat in particular doesnt have PC-1.0

Fix for panic when ssh min and max port is the same for qemu builder. Taken directly from a previous patch by mitchellh 8f50d2dd9a5b943881f0827fc07fbfb389e1407c

builder/parallels: Bundle python version of prltype

Uses the Python API from Parallels Virtualization SDK to write
boot commands.

This eliminates a 3rd party requirement and makes it easier for people
not using homebrew to get started with packer.

builder/vmware-esx: Ignore localhost for VNC lookup and document VNC requirements [GH-1480]

  Adds logic to ESXi driver VNC Address function to ignore listen
  addresses that bind to localhost (127.0.0.1), this allows certain
  default ports to be available on ESXi for VNC connections

fixed vmware-vmx step order

Run two builds in parallel with go get

By default, go get determines parallelism based on the number of
cores available. Those show up as 32 in the Travis CI environment
but a virtual machine is limited both by the amount of cores it
has allocated and the amount of memory available to it. 32 parallel
build processes are likely to exhaust the memory resources, leading
to killed processes.

This change reduces the number of builds running concurrently to 2,
which should reduce the likelihood of memory exhaustion greatly.

The number could probably be dialed up a little bit, but this should
give a good default reflecting the environment's resources.

website: Add group_vars and host_vars to Ansible provisioner docs

(configs to disable will come next)

Config Dir and plugin discovery there