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esxi 8.0, ubuntu cloud image, cloud-init
2 projects | /r/vmware | 30 Oct 2022

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
Using cloud-init with vSphere and openSUSE 15.4
2 projects | dev.to | 23 Sep 2022

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:
How to create a golden image?
3 projects | /r/vmware | 16 Oct 2021

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.
Ubuntu + DataSourceVMware via Terraform's extra_config
2 projects | /r/devops | 27 Sep 2021

https://grantorchard.com/terraform-vsphere-cloud-init/ https://github.com/vmware-archive/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo
How to change Windows SID, Hostname, IP of a VM template during VM creation using VM template?
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You can use CloudInit as well. Refer this https://github.com/vmware/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo
vmware-rpctool info-get guestinfo.userdata returns no value but works for ovfEnv
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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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vmware-archive/cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of cloud-init-vmware-guestinfo is Python.