Michael Kuzmin

check monitoring tab of the created VM. Are there any errors in tasks or events?

As mentioned in https://github.com/jetbrains-infra/packer-builder-vsphere/issues/108#issue-325712554, Ubuntu removed floppy driver from the kernel. At the moment you'll have to manually create ISO image with required files, and upload it into a datastore....

I don't have 6.7 yet, and never saw anything similar. 1. Check vCenter events. each key tap generates a separate vCenter task (`Put USB HID scan codes`). Sometimes error messages...

I don’t have enough experience with vSphere networking. Could you please explain in details how to reproduce such configuration. A screenshot of object hierarchy would be helpful.

In #180 I've added a filter to select a network attached to a particular host. Please test binaries from TeamCity build https://teamcity.jetbrains.com/viewLog.html?buildTypeId=PackerVSphere_Build&buildId=lastSuccessful&tab=artifacts

There is a mandatory requirement for VMware guest tools (`open-vm-tools` package) installed in a guest OS. Packer is a tool for automated VM template creation, not for deployment. I don't...

You are right. So we have two ways to configure a static IP address inside a VM: 1) vSphere VM [customization specs](https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.0/com.vmware.vsphere.vm_admin.doc/GUID-9A5093A5-C54F-4502-941B-3F9C0F573A39.html) 2) cloud-init I still consider your use case...

Thank you for the feedback. I think I better understand the use case now. We at JetBrains are not going to work on this feature anytime soon, but a PR...

I like the idea above using CentOS kikstart, Debian preseed, or Windows Autounattend files for this task.

Well, in clone-builder this makes more sense.