Customization is not available on Linux with minimal installation

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

• RHEL 9.4 can not configure IP address and hostname through customization specifications
• VM uses a minimal installation
• VM do not install perl
  • Use command “which perl” or “perl --version” to determine whether perl is installed
    • If perl is installed, the installation path of perl or the specific version information of perl will be displayed
    • If Perl is not installed, the output will be “no perl in” or “command not found”.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 7.x

VMware vCenter Server 8.x

Cause

Customization of Linux guest operating systems requires that Perl is installed in the Linux guest operating system.

Certain Linux OS versions do not include the D-Bus package in the minimal Linux installation option. Therefore, running commands such as dbus-uuidgen might fail during customization.

Resolution

• Install perl on the VM
• Use Standard Installation instead of Minimal Installation