rancherOS/config/cloudinit/Documentation/vmware-guestinfo.md

VMWare Guestinfo Interface

Cloud-Config VMWare Guestinfo Variables

coreos-cloudinit accepts configuration from the VMware RPC API's guestinfo facility. This datasource can be enabled with the --from-vmware-guestinfo flag to coreos-cloudinit.

The following guestinfo variables are recognized and processed by cloudinit when passed from the hypervisor to the virtual machine at boot time. Note that property names are prefixed with guestinfo. in the VMX, e.g., guestinfo.hostname.

guestinfo variable	type
hostname	hostname
interface.<n>.name	string
interface.<n>.mac	MAC address
interface.<n>.dhcp	{"yes", "no"}
interface.<n>.role	{"public", "private"}
interface.<n>.ip.<m>.address	CIDR IP address
interface.<n>.route.<l>.gateway	IP address
interface.<n>.route.<l>.destination	CIDR IP address
dns.server.<x>	IP address
dns.domain.<y>	DNS search domain
coreos.config.data	string
coreos.config.data.encoding	{"", "base64", "gzip+base64"}
coreos.config.url	URL

Note: "n", "m", "l", "x" and "y" are 0-indexed, incrementing integers. The identifier for an interface does not correspond to anything outside of this configuration; it serves only to distinguish between multiple interfaces.

The guide to booting on VMWare is the starting point for more information about configuring and running CoreOS on VMWare.