*Customization of the guest operating system 'freebsd64Guest' is not supported*

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*Customization of the guest operating system 'freebsd64Guest' is not supported*



While trying to clone VM via ansible using the vmware_guest module, new VM gets created with the old hostname. The Customize option is not taking effect. The error message that i see in the logs as well as within V-center is



Customization of the guest operating system 'freebsd64Guest' is not supported.



The operating system is FreeBSD OS. Please note, I have installed openvm tools in the source vm and only then i took a template. So, I have been trying to create the VM from the template that already has openvm tools.


---
- name: Create a VM from a template
vmware_guest:
hostname: '{{ vcenter_hostname }}'
username: '{{ vcenter_username }}'
password: '{{ vcenter_password }}'
validate_certs: '{{ validate_certs }}'
name: '{{ vm_name }}'
state: '{{ state }}'
template: '{{ vm_template }}'
datacenter: '{{ cluster_name }}'
folder: '{{ folder_name }}'
cluster: '{{ cluster }}'
hardware:
memory_mb: '{{ ram }}'
num_cpus: '{{ cpu }}'
scsi: '{{ scsi }}'
customization:
hostname: '{{ vm_name }}'
networks:
- name: VM-NETWORK
ip: '{{ ip_address }}'
netmask: '{{ netmask }}'
gateway: '{{ gateway }}'
type: '{{ type }}'
wait_for_ip_address: yes
delegate_to: localhost
register: deploy
~





What version of vSphere? And, have you tried doing the clone manually?
– Kyle Ruddy
Jul 20 at 14:54





Hi Kyle, Thank you for your comments. I use vcenter 6.x version.As mentioned earlier cloning VM works manually as well using Ansible. Only problem is, when I try to use customization by setting the new hostname for the host, it does not reflect. For now, I had to shutdown the source host, ssh to the new host and change the ip and hostname to new one and restart it.
– Karthi Keyan
Jul 21 at 8:23





Raised bug in Ansible - github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43189
– Karthi Keyan
5 hours ago




1 Answer
1



Looks like, it's a bug/feature that's not currently available in Vmware itself for FreeBSD. Please see the matrix available -



http://partnerweb.vmware.com/programs/guestOS/guest-os-customization-matrix.pdf



I have received this info, after raising bug in



https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/43189#issuecomment-407339134






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