vSphere guest support for Guest Customizations.

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Hello, is there any chance that the vSphere_guest module will add support for Guest Customization?

For instance in vCenter for Windows VMs we can create different customization profiles that allow us to setup the hostname, static ip, license file, reset the windows SID etc…
Basically when you create a new VM from template or what ever you can tell vSphere to run sysprep on Windows box based on the customization profile.

Example Vagrant plugin you have customization_spec_name
So you can reference any of the customization profiles.

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That’s something I would value too.
I was curious whether this is possible, and it looks like it is (now that vsphere_guest has apparently moved to pyvmomi - I found some old discussion and a reference to this custom module which appears to have support for Guest Customizations

https://github.com/whereismyjetpack/ansible_vcenter_module

Jon