Jorik Jonker

We've scheduled the work internally, somebody is going to work on it in the coming few weeks.

Small update: I have extended the project with in-tree code that replaces vmw-guestinfo for i386 and x86_64, and seems to work. I also have arm64 code derived from open-vm-tools that...

> If we do that, we should also update Talos VMWare platform for arm64 (same issue). The plot thickens: although I've replaced the dependency on `github.com/vmware/vmw-guestinfo` by the new `pkg/hypercall`...

We need to wait until [govmomi/toolbox](https://github.com/vmware/govmomi/issues/3764) is on board with this.

So, the govmomi stuff is taking too long, so I copied the structs to another package in the repo. It compiles for linux/arm64, and am going to test this in...

It seems to work at least partially: my VM shuts down gracefully through Talos API when I click "shutdown". I have not checked the IP reporting (need to enable REST...

``` $ curl -k -u 'XXX:YYY' https://localhost:8697/api/vms//ip { "ip": "172.16.94.132" } ```

You should all be able to test the pre-release: `ghcr.io/siderolabs/talos-vmtoolsd:v1.0.0-pr32.0`. We'll integrate this test version into our test setup, and if it seems OK, we'll probably release it (together with...

> If we do that, we should also update Talos VMWare platform for arm64 (same issue). So I took a look into that. For the most it's straightforward, we just...

@kodal, can you check if the updated extension works for you?