DevOps Engineering with VMWare

This video describes the manual process, after you write a custom init script, on how to add the script with VMWare.

0:16 - How to stop Ubuntu from generating random ethernet names
1:30 - Copying over the custom script and staging it in the image
2:40 - Adding OVA properties using VMware Vsphere (web) client
6:25 - Export the OVA
10:12 - Testing the init script (not mentioned, take a VM snapshot before staging the init script to quickly revert for future changes)
10:40 - Adding OVA properties using VMware Vsphere C# client, remember to enable OVF transport!
11:37 - Another test and verification of a functioning script

This is the manual way. Stay tuned for how to use Packer to accomplish the same task

Developing a custom init script with vmware, enabling OVF transport, and testing