✨ Community Announcement: Plugin Transferred to Broadcom! ✨

[tenthirtyam]

We're excited to share some news about the Packer plugin for VMware Desktop Hypervisors!

The development and maintenance of this plugin is transitioning to VMware by Broadcom under the github.com/vmware organization on January 27, 2026. 🥳 🎉

Over the past few years, we have established a valuable partnership with the Packer team at HashiCorp, and we're incredibly grateful for their contributions and continued guidance. We want to assure the community that we are committed to ensuring a seamless transition and that the plugin will continue to function as expected. We anticipate no required changes to your existing Packer templates or configurations.

This transition underscores VMware by Broadcom's dedication to the plugin and our commitment to:

• Continuing development: We are eager to invest in the plugin's future, bringing new features and improvements to better serve your needs.

• Maintaining stability: We will continue to iterate to enhance the plugin's stability and reliability for your image automation workflows.

• Fostering community engagement: We highly value your feedback and look forward to collaborating with you on the plugin's evolution.

We're excited about this next step and the opportunity to further enhance the plugin in collaboration with you.

Ryan Johnson
VMware by Broadcom

[tenthirtyam]

The development and maintenance of this plugin transferred from HashiCorp to Broadcom under the github.com/vmware organization on January 27, 2026 🥳 🎉

Tip

No changes are required in your configurations and plugin initialization will be automatically redirected from github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-vmware to github.com/vmware/packer-plugin-vmware. However, we encourage you to consider updating your configurations to source vmware/vmware in the packer block.

packer {
 required_version = ">= 1.7.0"
 required_plugins {
   vmware = {
     version = ">= 1.2.0"
     source  = "github.com/vmware/vmware"
   }
 }
}

We're excited about this next step and the opportunity to further enhance the plugin in collaboration with you.

Ryan Johnson
VMware by Broadcom
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