Understood. I think you are using vSphere7, guest-customization does support netplan from vSphere 6.7U3g, so network-config can be set. Guest-customization has 2 engines: one is perl scripts, the other is cloud-init. Unfortunately, neither of them can work with cloud-init to set userdata guest-config at the same boot. For perl script based guest-customization, it has dependency on dbus, due to the reason in comment #28, it fails with cloud-init running. For cloud-init based guest-customization, it uses the same cloud-init datasource OVF with ISO file, but different seed. Cloud-init can only apply either guest-customization or ISO userdata guest-config.
Good news is if you are using vSphere7, you can use customization post- customization script to finish your workflow, need below steps: 1. Power-on VM which deploy from ova. 2. Disable cloud-init by running the command “sudo touch /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled” 3. Enable customization script by running the command "vmware-toolbox-cmd config set deployPkg enable-custom-scripts true" 3. Power-off VM and convert it to template. 4. Create a new guest-customization specification which includes network-configs and customization script, the script looks like: #!/bin/sh if [ x$1 == x"postcustomization" ]; then rm /etc/cloud/cloud-init.disabled systemctl reboot fi 5. Generate the cloud-init configurations for guest-config dynamically and create a cloud-init.iso file 6. The rest steps you did Related document and KB: a. Create a Customization Specification for Linux https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-9A5093A5-C54F-4502-941B-3F9C0F573A39.html b. Setting the customization script for virtual machines in vSphere 7.0 https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/74880 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1793715 Title: VMWare Guest OS Customization will fail for Ubuntu 18.04 Server LiveCD To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cloud-init/+bug/1793715/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
