Just as an update - I can confirm that disabling works with 20.10 (which uses an up-to-date enough version of open-vm-tools).
I still didn't attach the network automatically, but I have the suspicion that this is because of the ansible collection, because after the machine is booted I can attach the network using govc using:
Just as an update - I can confirm that disabling works with 20.10 (which uses an up-to-date enough version of open-vm-tools).
I still didn't attach the network automatically, but I have the suspicion that this is because of the ansible collection, because after the machine is booted I can attach the network using govc using:
govc device.connect -vm=myvm ethernet-0