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    <title>topic Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification in vCenter™ Server Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872398#M60098</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Why would that package make a difference?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:38:38 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>gcikulbe</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2020-02-17T22:38:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872392#M60092</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm trying to create a gold template for provisioning guests from using current version of CentOS 8, however, VMware Customzation Specification seems to be just completely broken for it. I have the latest version of open-vm-tools and perl packages installed. If I try to customize the OS and give it the network configuration, the VM starts up without hostname being changed (to the VM name) and the NIC has no IP at all. What am I missing? I'm also using EFI boot, which is recommended for CentOS 8.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here are the environment information:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- ESXi 6.7u3&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- vCenter 6.7u3&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- CentOS 8.0.1905&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- open-vm-tools 10.3.0-2.el8&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;- perl 5.26.3-416.el8&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2020 00:36:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872392#M60092</guid>
      <dc:creator>jimm_chen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-01-16T00:36:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872393#M60093</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;not an answer but I'm facing the same problem (i dont have perl installed, so need to fix that first).&lt;BR /&gt;just to troubleshoot:&lt;BR /&gt;in deployed VM check the end of the file: &lt;SPAN style="color: #565656; font-family: Metropolis, 'Avenir Next', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt; /var/log/vmware-imc/toolsDeployPkg.log&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;in my case it was something like this:&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="pastedImage_0.png"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/16753i500EB633E1347F94/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;amp;px=999" role="button" title="pastedImage_0.png" alt="pastedImage_0.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;when you copy/paste this into terminal it should run the customziation or error. In my case it failed for missing perl. I'd try that (i'll try and list dthe issues I'm having)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:37:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872393#M60093</guid>
      <dc:creator>kallischlauch</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-01-21T14:37:55Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872394#M60094</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I was facing this same hell.&amp;nbsp; The NIC was showing as not connected and the cust spec was failing.&amp;nbsp; In the log, you may see errors like the attachment.&amp;nbsp; Simply install perl and this package and things are working for me now.&amp;nbsp; Best of luck.&amp;nbsp; This really should be a required RPM for the open-vm-tools to install.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;perl-File-Temp-0.230.600-1.el8.noarch&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Mike&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:42:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872394#M60094</guid>
      <dc:creator>sharptonm</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-01-22T19:42:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872395#M60095</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have latest open-vm-tools, perl (and perl-File-Temp) installed already. However, the VM deployed from the template would boot up without NIC connected. Though if I convert the template back to VM and boot it up, it comes up just fine with NIC. This is completely bizzare. Furthermore, changing the NIC to connected for the VM deployed off the template yields an error "Invalid configuration for device '0'."&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2020 07:51:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872395#M60095</guid>
      <dc:creator>jimm_chen</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-01-24T07:51:07Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872396#M60096</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;We're seeing this same issue here on both RHEL 8.x and CentOS 8.x.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;This is killing our efforts to move to newer releases.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:41:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872396#M60096</guid>
      <dc:creator>gcikulbe</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-02-06T18:41:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872397#M60097</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Did you install cloud-init package ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 13:32:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872397#M60097</guid>
      <dc:creator>ludo_sco</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-02-14T13:32:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872398#M60098</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Why would that package make a difference?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 22:38:38 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872398#M60098</guid>
      <dc:creator>gcikulbe</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-02-17T22:38:38Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872399#M60099</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;This package makes a difference because it's used by VMware customization.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Can you post vm customization log here ?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2020 23:52:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872399#M60099</guid>
      <dc:creator>ludo_sco</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-02-17T23:52:33Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872400#M60100</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;thanks, cloud-init was the missing package for me. thought once &lt;SPAN style="text-align: left; color: #333333; text-indent: 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal;"&gt;deployPkg wasn't required anymore we'd be done with this stuff but i guess not&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2020 01:22:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872400#M60100</guid>
      <dc:creator>tekerjerbs</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-03-08T01:22:01Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: CentOS 8 and VMware Customization Specification</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872401#M60101</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Before mark VM as template you need install perl-File-Temp package. After install customization works fine.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2020 09:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/CentOS-8-and-VMware-Customization-Specification/m-p/1872401#M60101</guid>
      <dc:creator>diSabler</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-05-08T09:17:45Z</dc:date>
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