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Add OVA template customize
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
It's not admin friendly to setup a Photon OS-VM by OVA template, when you need to setup keyboard layout, network interface and ssh enablement. If these 3 settings could be configured by ova deployment, the OVA template would be much more easier to use.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add configuration to ova with following subjects:
- network interface
- ssh enablement
- keyboard layout
Describe alternatives you've considered
No response
Additional context
Here a "professional photoshop"-suggestion:
Hi @metron-eging,
Have you started implementing custom code for this? The idea is good.
Afaik there is no make-build-"à la carte"-parameter for this. An .ovf/.ova file can contain e.g. for the keyboard layout a prefilled dropdown listing (or a string, as well).
<Property ovf:key="OvfClass44_Keyboard_Layout" ovf:qualifiers="ValueMap{"Swiss-German","German-German","English-US"}" ovf:type="string" ovf:userConfigurable="true">
<Label>Keyboard Layout</Label>
</Property>
The vixdiskutil contains the logic to read/write such "meta" properties (key,value). Orchestrating and automating those additional, unique "classes" through vhw versions, x86_64 + arm64, Photon OS backports without/with secureboot-option is a project win.
Its not the same but I got round these limitations by using the cloud-init functionality included with Photon. The documentation here is not particularly good however I managed to find enough info online. Must write a blog post about it.....
