Run open-vmware-tools on talos?

[brokencode64]

I'm trying to setup vsphere-csi-driver on a talos cluster running inside vmware esxi (with vcenter ofc). The main issue I'm running into is that the "cloud-controller" cannot find my vms by ip/dns, and this information actually isn't available in vcenter since these vms don't have vmware-tools.

Has anyone found a workaround for this? I've seen some ideas about possibly deploying a privileged container whose image has open-vmware-tools built-in on the host-network of each host; however, I don't see any recent builds like this. Most of these solutions look like they're 4-5 years old.

[andrewrynhard]

@alex1989hu might have some ideas.

[alex1989hu]

Hello, we have been using for years:
https://github.com/linuxkit/linuxkit/tree/master/contrib/open-vm-tools

[brokencode64]

Oh interesting. I will give that a try!