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[Man-Yee]

Hi,

I would like to disable snapshot in vmware.
I know that I can set this advanced configuration (snapshot.maxSnapshots) to "0" to achieve this.
I also know that if I modify the .ovf file with the following line, it will achieve the wanted result:
<VirtualHardwareSection ovf:transport="com.vmware.guestInfo"> <Info>Virtual hardware requirements</Info> . . . <vmw:ExtraConfig ovf:required="false" vmw:key="snapshot.maxSnapshots" vmw:value="0"/> </VirtualHardwareSection>

I would like to automate this. According to documentation, I can possibly use extraConfig in configure_parameters.
I tried many variations in my .hcl file , but without success:

configuration_parameters = { extraConfig = { key = "snapshot.maxSnapshots" value = "0" } }

It complains about
Inappropriate value for attribute "configuration_parameters": element "extraConfig": string required.

Then I tried this:
configuration_parameters = { "extraConfig" = "snapshot.maxSnapshots=0" }
Although the build pass, deploying the .ova file does not yield the wanted result.

What is the correct format to use extraConfig? Is snapshot.maxSnapshots supported?

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