Dominic Cleal wrote:

It should work if instead, your image uses DHCP to set its hostname, or you update it using the finish script.

Actually it would be better to modify https://github.com/theforeman/foreman/blob/develop/app/models/compute_resources/foreman/model/vmware.rb#L354-L366 to pass customization_spec

Something like this

opts = {
        "datacenter" => datacenter,
        "template_path" => args[:image_id],
        "dest_folder" => args[:path].gsub(path_replace, ''),
        "power_on" => false,
        "start" => args[:start],
        "name" => args[:name],
        "numCPUs" => args[:cpus],
        "memoryMB" => args[:memory_mb],
        "datastore" => args[:volumes].first[:datastore],
        "network_label" => args[:interfaces].first[:network],
        "network_adapter_device_key" => network_adapter_device_key,
        'customization_spec' => {
            'domain'     => args[:domain],
            'ipsettings' => {
                'ip'      => args[:ip],
                'gateway' => args[:gateway],
                'subnetMask' => args[subnet],
            },
         },
      }

This code with static data works fine. I think it can be creatad like a checkbox "Apply customization specifications"

And this request duplicates #6157