VMware tools need to be reinstalled after sysprep

[Ranger_rkm]

Hello,

I would like to know if anyone has had this problem.

I created a golden image, then sysprep it, then converted to template.

Everytime I deploy a VM from this template, I have to reinstall the VMware Tools.

Thanks for your help.

Mike

[gbhorne]

You can just modify. You'll have ot do that.

[Ranger_rkm]

Do you mean, repair the VMware tools.  Because this is what I have been doing for months.

I just think that there has to be a way, to not have to repair the tools.

If you were to create say 20 VMs, this tasks take time.

Thanks,

Mike

[RParker]

Not sure how you are doing sysprep, there are many options, you must be resetting the image somehow that requires a reinstall.

We use sysprep, we are not having this problem.

The best way to do this is simply run the sysprep ONCE (you don't need to do it EACH and every time).  You run sysprep PRIOR to creating a template.. that template is now your "golden" image.

Once it's sysprep.. NOW you can install the tools, patches etc.. THEN deploy after that.

That's where you are making your mistake.

Sysprep is to prepare a VM for changing hardware or settings to make it vanilla... Templates are VM's that can be deployed..

[iw123]

When you say you have to reinstall - what state are the tools in when you have provisioned  a VM from your template? Missing, or just not running?