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Table 1‑24. Custom Properties for Customizing Provisioned Machines with a Guest Agent
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Custom Property Description
VirtualMachine.Customize.WaitComplete
Set to True to prevent the provisioning workflow from sending
work items to the guest agent until all customizations are
complete.
VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.Name
Specifies the descriptive name of a software application N or
script to install or run during provisioning. This is an optional and
information-only property. It serves no real function for the
enhanced clone workflow or the guest agent but it is useful for a
custom software selection in a user interface or for software use
reporting.
VirtualMachine.SoftwareN.ScriptPath
Specifies the full path to an application's install script. The path
must be a valid absolute path as seen by the guest operating
system and must include the name of the script filename.
You can pass custom property values as parameters to the
script by inserting {CustomPropertyName} in the path string. For
example, if you have a custom property named ActivationKey
whose value is 1234, the script path is D:\InstallApp.bat –
key {ActivationKey}. The guest agent runs the command
D:\InstallApp.bat –key 1234. Your script file can then be
programmed to accept and use this value.
Insert {Owner} to pass the machine owner name to the script.
You can also pass custom property values as parameters to the
script by inserting {YourCustomProperty} in the path string. For
example, entering the
value \\vra-
scripts.mycompany.com\scripts\changeIP.bat runs the
changeIP.bat script from a shared location, but entering the
value \\vra-
scripts.mycompany.com\scripts\changeIP.bat
{VirtualMachine.Network0.Address} runs the changeIP
script but also passes the value of the
VirtualMachine.Network0.Address property to the script as
a parameter.
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