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Hi! The base image is pretty minimal, if you are having trouble with it I would suggest trying -kvm or even -baremetal images as they contain more packages and drivers!

trying to build a custom iso with the edge image builder but it's driving me crazy. so hard to find extended documentation... seems like nobody is using Elemental on Vmware ..

That reminds me we have a page in the docs for this: https://elemental.docs.rancher.com/rancher-vmware/ but it actually looks a bit outdated (using sle-micro 5.5)

I started with that page as starting point but it is giving me the disk looping problem ... ( when trying with a 6.1 sle micro ) so now trying to build custom iso .. but failing on the "open-vm-tools" ... ok some more digging - step back and check other logs ... need more disk space to build images ... Final goal is to be able to use Elemental as base for downstream cluster on rancher and deploy this with maximal automation (Ansible) ... hopefully i can make some progress

Okay the baremetal image installs open-vm-tools, the 6.1 image is

<http://registry.suse.com/suse/sl-micro/6.1/baremetal-iso-image:2.2.0-4.3|registry.suse.com/suse/sl-micro/6.1/baremetal-iso-image:2.2.0-4.3>

that image is also not working on vmware

Did it work for you with the

<http://registry.suse.com/suse/sle-micro-iso/5.5:2.0.2|registry.suse.com/suse/sle-micro-iso/5.5:2.0.2>

image? Since that one has actually been tested and documented as working it would be helpful to know if the issue is with the newer images or not.

Ok managed to get a vm up and running with the 5.5 image. Will now try and see how much I can customize it with the cloud config