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Robert Wilson

Asked: 2010-05-26 01:39:12 +0800 CST

Getting metadata from within VMWare Guest OS

Is there a way to get metadata (i.e. VM Name, Annotations, etc.) from within the Guest OS? I'm using a Ubuntu JeOS template and want to run a script on startup which configures new VMs according to the metadata. This is on VMWare ESX.

Getting metadata from within VMWare Guest OS

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