I saw this thread and thought I'd comment on it. I think this is a great disadvantage in the vix api. I'm wanting to do the same thing. But it seems that there would be a better way of doing this other than automating the task via wasp (not everyone runs microsoft products). I believe you could create a 'blank' virtual guest in a compressed file. Then the automated tasks to creating the virtual guest would be as follows.
Copy the template guest to the host machine
change the mac address in the vmx file (you can randomly do this, vmware has a range that they are allowed.)
Change any other machine specific settings (mounted cd image, network adapter, cpu, ram)
register the machine via the vix api
I think I'll be trying out this to see if it's possible. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
