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Add documentation section on whitelisting in VMware boxes

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linked clones, please see the documentation. linked clones, please see the documentation.
</div> </div>
## VMX Whitelisting
Settings in the VMX file control the behavior of the VMware virtual machine
when it is booted. In the past Vagrant has removed the configured network
device when creating a new instance and inserted a new configuration. With
the introduction of ["predictable network interface names"][iface-names] this
approach can cause unexpected behaviors or errors with VMware Vagrant boxes.
While some boxes that use the predictable network interface names are configured
to handle the VMX modifications Vagrant makes, it is better if Vagrant does
not make the modification at all.
Vagrant will now warn if a whitelisted setting is detected within a Vagrant
box VMX file. If it is detected, a warning will be shown alerting the user
and providing a configuration snippet. The configuration snippet can be
used in the Vagrantfile if Vagrant fails to start the virtual machine.
### Making compatible boxes
These are the VMX settings the whitelisting applies to:
* `ethernet*.pcislotnumber`
If the newly created box does not depend on Vagrant's existing behavior of
modifying this setting, it can disable Vagrant from applying the modification
by adding a Vagrantfile to the box with the following content:
```ruby
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
["vmware_workstation", "vmware_fusion"].each do |vmware_provider|
config.vm.provider(vmware_provider) do |vmware|
vmware.whitelist_verified = true
end
end
end
```
This will prevent Vagrant from displaying a warning to the user as well as
disable the VMX settings modifications.
## Installed Software ## Installed Software
Base boxes for VMware should have the following software installed, as Base boxes for VMware should have the following software installed, as
@ -105,3 +144,5 @@ single command) since VMware hard disks are not compressed by default.
$ cd /path/to/my/vm.vmwarevm $ cd /path/to/my/vm.vmwarevm
$ tar cvzf custom.box ./* $ tar cvzf custom.box ./*
``` ```
[iface-names]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/