Hello,
it seems that guest customization support for Ubuntu/Debian and other Linux OSes has been removed in VSphere 5. It was working in 3.5, 4.0 and 4.1 and there is no mention of its removal in VSphere 5 release notes.
Our automatic deployment scripts are based on guest customization, so now we're considering a rollback to 4.1.
Does anyone know whether guest customization support for Ubuntu/Debian will be restored in future VSphere releases/patches?
Regards,
Francesco Cambiaso
No longer supported. I get the feeling VMware and Ubuntu are on the outs.
Starting with vSphere 5.0, the support for the following operating systems is deprecated:
I'm facing the same issue.
No longer supported. I get the feeling VMware and Ubuntu are on the outs.
Starting with vSphere 5.0, the support for the following operating systems is deprecated:
Is there anywhere we can petition for this to be restored? At least for Ubuntu Long Term Support releases? Almost all of our Linux VMs are either Ubuntu LTS or Debian, and losing this functionality is very unfortunate. Of course, I can customise a VM by hand, but that's rather tedious.
I totally second that !!! Danm !
For the moment I've hacked a script together which uses the vsphere perl utilities to find the current DHCP IP address allocated to the new virtual machine, logs into it using a trusted ssh key which is in the template, and reconfigures the hostname and network settings.
I've also found where you make feature requests for VMware. I'd suggest everyone affected by this does so. Unless they hear about it, they'll claim there's no demand.
Best of luck...
Here's my script, in case it's of use to anyone else: