Chef provisioning vsphere and knife vsphere

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi!

It seems there’s a small feature disparity currently between knife vsphere and chef-provisioning-vsphere and I’m wondering if anyone using either of these has found a solution.

knife vsphere vm clone provides a --cplugin option which allows one to use a custom script “that implements KnifeVspherePlugin.customize_clone_spec and/or KnifeVspherePlugin.reconfig_vm” which looks like this: https://gist.github.com/pcn/9696731

Does anyone know what capability, if any, is provided by the provisioning driver to do something similar?

It seems possible since both are using RbVmomi: https://github.com/CenturyLinkCloud/chef-provisioning-vsphere/blob/master/lib/chef/provisioning/vsphere_driver/clone_spec_builder.rb

Has anyone done this yet?

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I dont think the provisioner provides this but it would be cool. You would have to do some fairly ugly monkey patching to get the same behavior right now.