cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo VS vghetto-scripts

https://github.com/vmware-archive/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo .. looks like it's part of cloud-init now. https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/pull/953

Unfortunately, VMware's new metadata source does not appear to function with this distribution. According to Canonical's changelog, _ cloud-init _ Version 21.3+ is required to recognize the new datasource. I tested with OpenSUSE 15.4 (Ships with _ cloud-init 21.4 _) and received the following error:

Finally, create and add the cloud-init payload either using an ISO-File or this vmware datasource provider (note the deprecated hint) to your cloned vm. At boot, Cloud-init will take care of the systems hostname, network etc.

https://grantorchard.com/terraform-vsphere-cloud-init/ https://github.com/vmware-archive/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo

You can use CloudInit as well. Refer this https://github.com/vmware/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo

You may also want to ask or look at https://github.com/vmware/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo which looks to be our implementation of cloud-init and vSphere, so those folks should be authority on how this should work for their solution :)

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2) You can define individual key/value using vSphere API by simply updating the ExtraConfig property of a VM which is really just an array, see https://github.com/lamw/vghetto-scripts/blob/master/powershell/GuestInfo.ps1 for example using PowerCLI. This ultimately will manifest itself as key/value pairs within the VMX file (that's another way but do not recommend manually tweaking it since we've got an API do help with that)