Made me do IT.

Wow, spent a few hours today trying to get a SLES10 image working right with VMware Lab Manager 3. Unfortunately the documentation could have been a little better on how the vmware-tools sets the IP on the SLES instance, we ran around in circles looking for how do get that done.

Well turns out, when we converted the SLES image to a virtual machine and then to a VMware Template, we didn’t set the image to SUSE Linux Enterprise 64-bit (it was set to “other Linux 64-bit”). Seems the vmware-tools should be smart enough to detect that it is sles, and adjust it accordingly?

Well, once set, everything is working as expected, but the magic working underneath is still that, magic. Docs don’t tell me much and I don’t have time to dig into it deeper.