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Terraform-provider-esxi plugin
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Newbie - clone_from_vm or guestinfo doc #200

Closed stikmou007 closed 1 year ago

stikmou007 commented 1 year ago

Hello, i'm trying to use terraform with an esxi free edition ^^ I have installed our provider en reach to create one VM but without OS. I try to understand how to do for installing any OS and I see the cd_rom option is not avaible. I have see clone_from_vm or guestinfo but I don't understand how it's works.

I have followed this tuto https://williamlam.com/2012/05/how-to-deploy-ovfova-in-esxi-shell.html for installing ovftool but is no working.

If someone have any tips to help me it's sounds cool

P./ excuse me if this is not the best way and for my english ^^

josenk commented 1 year ago

You'll need to provide more details.

stikmou007 commented 1 year ago

Juste, like a newbee ^^, I'm have wonder how to create a VM with an OS (like Ubuntu) installed. But since my post, I have reache how using "clone_from_vm" and how to install ovftools.

So on esxi the best way is to create a "vm template" that we can use with ovftools to create a new VM with OS done. If there is an other way, don't have find it.

I'm going to close this "issue"