alliek-mti

I think part of the problem is that /etc/vmware-tools is on a read-only filesystem, so it can't create/update its quiesce_manifest.xml file. You can enable some debug info: ``` sudo -i...

(NB: Starting from a fresh install, not on top of the above changes.) The /etc/vmware-tools directory is linked into place by a dropin at /usr/lib/systemd/system/vmtoolsd.service.d/flatcar-fixups.conf So first thing, we need...

The /etc/vmware-tools path is hard coded in open-vm-tools: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/lib/guestApp/guestApp.c#L68 It's used to build the path to the quiesce_manifest.xml file here: https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools/blob/master/open-vm-tools/services/plugins/vmbackup/syncManifest.c#L95 No env var, no command line switch, no config...

Here's a butane snippet that puts it all together. Requires systemd 256. ```yaml --- variant: flatcar version: "1.0.0" systemd: units: - name: etc-vmware\x2dtools.mount enabled: true contents: | [Unit] DefaultDependencies=no After=ensure-sysext.service...