Bug 270884 - Enable vCD OS Guest Customization Screen
Summary: Enable vCD OS Guest Customization Screen
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: bin (show other bugs)
Version: 13.1-STABLE
Hardware: amd64 Any
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Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody)
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Reported: 2023-04-16 19:32 UTC by Steven Petrillo
Modified: 2023-04-18 18:05 UTC (History)
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2023-04-16 19:32 UTC, Steven Petrillo 		no flags Details
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Description Steven Petrillo 2023-04-16 19:32:07 UTC 
Created attachment 241533 [details]
Screenshot of vCD OS Guest Customization Screen

I am using a provider's VMware vCD environment to deploy virtual servers, and ont I am working with is OPNsense 23.1. When I build a vm with their image the OS Guest Customization edit button is greyed. I then tried to build a vanilla FreeBSD virtual machine and it too has the edit button greyed out.

Not having OS guest customizations does not allow me to transition guest updates to the vm. For example I have a DHCP IP for the public side of the OPNsense VM. This works just fine without guest customizations, but if I want the DHCP IP to be pulled from a static pool that is defined within vCD then thats where guest customizations comes into play. The vm will reboot, and then apply the guest customizations that are enabled for it.

I have tried installing the VMware Open VM Tools package but this still does not enable the edit button.
Comment 1 Ed Maste freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-04-18 18:05:45 UTC 
Can you find some VMware documentation on how to enable guest OS customization? (I.e., how a guest OS is intended to interact with the settings.)