Just as an update - I can confirm that disabling works with 20.10 (which uses an up-to-date enough version of open-vm-tools).
I still didn't attach the network automatically, but I have the suspicion that this is because of the ansible collection, because after the machine is booted I can attach the network using govc using: govc device.connect -vm=myvm ethernet-0 -- 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
