

In short, you need to make /etc/redhat-release say: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.0 (Maipo) He built on something I’d seen in /var/log/vmware-imc/toolsDeployPkg.log, where the VMware Tools couldn’t figure out what the OS is and then would abort.

About three weeks ago a fellow named Jeff Burns asked this same question on Server Fault, then answered his own question five minutes later (this is often what happens to me immediately upon filing a support case). I finally asked our oracle and savior, Google, and two amazing things occurred.įirst, I found the answer.

No matter what I did it would customize the VM, then uncustomize it, essentially leaving me with the template again. So I just spent two hours of my life trying to get my CentOS 7 VM template to deploy correctly with a vSphere customization specification.
