Comment 23 for bug 2039206

Any news related to this issue? If you offer a temporary solution that skips the use of hwclock without having to change the image beforehand it would be great.

As you probably know, when using vmwaretools you cannot install it beforehand with the cloudimage using cloud-init, because vmware tools needs hwclock immediately and it will error out.

In my case, I think this leads to the network interface not being attached anymore (although the original ova template is set to "Connect at Power On".