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• disk_additional_size ([]uint) - The size(s) of any additional hard disks for the VM in megabytes. If this is not specified then the VM will only contain a primary hard disk. The builder uses expandable, not fixed-size virtual hard disks, so the actual file representing the disk will not use the full size unless it is full.

• disk_adapter_type (string) - The adapter type of the VMware virtual disk to create. This option is for advanced usage, modify only if you know what you're doing. Some of the options you can specify are ide, sata, nvme or scsi (which uses the "lsilogic" scsi interface by default). If you specify another option, Packer will assume that you're specifying a scsi interface of that specified type. For more information, please consult Virtual Disk Manager User's Guide for desktop VMware clients. For ESXi, refer to the proper ESXi documentation.

• vmdk_name (string) - The filename of the virtual disk that'll be created, without the extension. This defaults to packer.

• disk_size (uint) - The size of the hard disk for the VM in megabytes. The builder uses expandable, not fixed-size virtual hard disks, so the actual file representing the disk will not use the full size unless it is full. By default this is set to 40000 (about 40 GB).

• disk_type_id (string) - The type of VMware virtual disk to create. This option is for advanced usage.

  For desktop VMware clients:

  Type ID	Description
  0	Growable virtual disk contained in a single file (monolithic sparse).
  1	Growable virtual disk split into 2GB files (split sparse).
  2	Preallocated virtual disk contained in a single file (monolithic flat).
  3	Preallocated virtual disk split into 2GB files (split flat).
  4	Preallocated virtual disk compatible with ESX server (VMFS flat).
  5	Compressed disk optimized for streaming.

  The default is 1.

  For ESXi, this defaults to zeroedthick. The available options for ESXi are: zeroedthick, eagerzeroedthick, thin. rdm:dev, rdmp:dev, 2gbsparse are not supported. Due to default disk compaction, when using zeroedthick or eagerzeroedthick set skip_compaction to true.

  For more information, please consult the Virtual Disk Manager User's Guide for desktop VMware clients. For ESXi, refer to the proper ESXi documentation.

• cdrom_adapter_type (string) - The adapter type (or bus) that will be used by the cdrom device. This is chosen by default based on the disk adapter type. VMware tends to lean towards ide for the cdrom device unless sata is chosen for the disk adapter and so Packer attempts to mirror this logic. This field can be specified as either ide, sata, or scsi.

• guest_os_type (string) - The guest OS type being installed. This will be set in the VMware VMX. By default this is other. By specifying a more specific OS type, VMware may perform some optimizations or virtual hardware changes to better support the operating system running in the virtual machine.

• version (string) - The vmx hardware version for the new virtual machine. Only the default value has been tested, any other value is experimental. Default value is 9.

• vm_name (string) - This is the name of the VMX file for the new virtual machine, without the file extension. By default this is packer-BUILDNAME, where "BUILDNAME" is the name of the build.

• vmx_disk_template_path (string) - VMX Disk Template Path

• vmx_template_path (string) - Path to a configuration template that defines the contents of the virtual machine VMX file for VMware. This is for advanced users only as this can render the virtual machine non-functional. See below for more information. For basic VMX modifications, try vmx_data first.