I'm working on a workflow that involves cutting a virtual machine in VirtualBox on my local machine, using OVFTool to convert it to a VMX / VMDK and uploading those to a datastore. I upload the VMX as a template, and register it once it's uploaded. This works great, except for when it thinks that VMware tools isn't installed, when makes it so I can't use guest customizations. When I'm cutting the VM I install open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-deploypkg. If I clone a vm from the template, power it up, shut it down and turn THAT into a template, it sees the vmware tools version correctly (and I can use guest customizations). Does anyone have any idea if there's something I can set in the vmx file or something during the registration process that can cut out the dance of clone, boot, poweroff, mark as template?
Thanks!