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hashicorp / packer-plugin-vmware

Packer plugin for VMware Builder
https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/vmware
Mozilla Public License 2.0
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Update plugin to support Fusion 13 by default #131

Open nywilken opened 1 year ago

nywilken commented 1 year ago

Please search the existing issues for relevant feature requests, and use the reaction feature (https://blog.github.com/2016-03-10-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments/) to add upvotes to pre-existing requests.

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Description

As called out by a number of issues getting this plugin to work with Fusion 13 on M1/M2-based chipsets for ARM based OSes requires a bit of additional configuration changes.

There has been some work to update this plugin for installing VMware tools but the driver refers to Fusion v6 and the generated vmx file contains lsilogic settings, which are not supported in Fusion 13.

This issue is proposing the following:

Use Case(s)

tenthirtyam commented 1 year ago

😶‍🌫️ Should also include Workstation 17 (Windows and Linux).

tenthirtyam commented 4 months ago

Suggesting the following:

Short-term:

Long-term: