Adam Grare

cc @Fryguy @kbrock

I assume at some point this will create a `VmReconfigureRequest` right?

> Why not attach it to the VMware Provider EMS? Because we only need one instance of it

If we have the tgz file in BinaryBlobs then we will have to pull it down and extract it to the target dir. On an appliance this will only have...

Yes I was comparing to the "mount a volume' option (unless that's already been NAK'd?)

> What's required to tell the underlying code where the vddk is installed if we're not rebuilding images? I understand that uploading the files to the right location is important...

That looks like it just tacks on a specific directory to LD_LIBRARY_PATH, in my case I already have the proper directory in LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Ah sorry, use of the VDDK is by the smartproxy not the vmware operations worker. I had originally had the entire smartstate scan performed by the vmware operations worker but...

Okay I had vddk 7.0.2 which was "too new" so ffi-vix_disk_lib wasn't picking it up. Once I switched to 7.0.1 it worked. Also need to note: the target directory doesn't...

@Fryguy this wasn't cross repo, the issue here is that when running specs on release branches on GHA plugins are not using the `Gemfile.lock.release` In this case this caused the...