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@lucab lucab commented Apr 28, 2020

This implements fetching logic specific to the vmware provider
in order to support injecting custom network kargs, which are meant
to override the default ones.

In particular, this checks for an optional guestinfo property named
guestinfo.afterburn.initrd.network-kargs which can be used to provide
a string containing VM-specific overrides.

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@lucab I was following the closed PR.
I would assume that vmtoolsd would need to be running before trying to query for guestinfo?
Could we use this to set the hostname?

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lucab commented Apr 29, 2020

I would assume that vmtoolsd would need to be running before trying to query for guestinfo?

No, this has no dependency on vmtoolsd. Like Ignition, it queries the hypervisor back-channel directly. At the time when this (and Ignition) runs in initramfs, it is quite too early for vmtoolsd.

Could we use this to set the hostname?

Possibly, if you already have it as part of your ip= and if that works generally.
However, I'd recommend against approaching it that way as it is fragile (as we keep finding out, see e.g. coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker#466)
Hostname should be coming from DHCP. If that is missing or needs to be overridden, static hostname configuration should be performed via Ignition configuration (like all other OS customizations).

This implements fetching logic specific to the `vmware` provider
in order to support injecting custom network kargs, which are meant
to override the default ones.

In particular, this checks for an optional guestinfo property named
`guestinfo.afterburn.initrd.network-kargs` which can be used to provide
a string containing VM-specific overrides.
@lucab lucab force-pushed the ups/vmware-net-kargs branch from 5762d36 to d4aa045 Compare May 18, 2020 12:22
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lucab commented May 19, 2020

Rebased against master, this is ready for review. CI is green and I manually tested on a vSphere setup with static networking.

/cc @jlebon

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