Vagrant vmware-esxi plugin flag to enable hardware virtualization on the VM

[Shashank Korada]

Hi,

I am using the vagrant esxi plugin for my testing.

Plugin: https://github.com/josenk/vagrant-vmware-esxi

A couple of issues that I am facing.

1. For my testing I need to enable hardware virtualization on the VM that is brought up on the ESXI server. Is there a flag that I can enable in the vagrant file to support this.

    I am currently manually editing the vmx file on the VM by adding the following  : vhv.enable = "TRUE"'

    Is there a flag that I can use in my vagrant file that can be enabled to achieve this when the VM is brought up ?

2. For the plugin to work we need ovftool and when run vagrant to bring up the VM ovftool prompts for the password of the esxi server.

    Is there a way to change this config so as to not prompt for the password

    Log from console:

               VMware ovftool 4.2.0 (build-5965791)

               Opening VMX source: /home/sdptest/.vagrant.d/boxes/bento-VAGRANTSLASH-ubuntu-16.04/201801.02.0/vmware_desktop/ZZZZ_sdp-master-esxi-1.vmx

               Enter login information for target vi://10.73.40.19/

               Username: root

               Password: ********** . =========> Manually entered. How can this be avoided?

Vagrantfile:

# Adjustable settings for Master Node

CFG_MEMSIZE = "6000"      # max memory for each VM

CFG_TZ = "US/Pacific"     # timezone, like US/Pacific, US/Eastern, UTC, Europe/Warsaw, etc.

CFG_CPU_NUM = "2"

CFG_MASTER_NODE_NAME = "sdp-master-esxi-1"

VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|

  config.ssh.forward_agent = true

  config.vm.define CFG_MASTER_NODE_NAME do |x|

    x.vm.box = "bento/ubuntu-16.04"

    x.vm.provider :vmware_esxi do |v|

      v.esxi_hostname = '10.73.40.11'

      v.esxi_username = 'root'

      v.esxi_password = 'password123'

      v.vmname = CFG_MASTER_NODE_NAME

      v.memsize = 6144

      v.numvcpus = CFG_CPU_NUM

    end

  end

end

[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

Hello

for 1 you can contact the plugin person to see if he can add the conf part

for 2 you can use vi://user:password@server

if you got special characters you can escape them with the html codes ie # -> %23 i think, by memory but giving you the idea.

Thanks

Alvaro.

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[Shashank Korada]

Thank you Alvaro.

I just figured out 1. We could use the custom_vmx_settings and add what is required as a key value pair.

Thanks for the second one, will try escaping the special characters

-Shashank

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[Alvaro Miranda Aguilera]

just to be sure

from this:

vi://10.73.40.19/

to this

vi://root:Password123@10.73.40.19/

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