If I manually cancel the net boot after the first reboot, and move the call to 'built' from before the first reboot to after puppet is installed, it works fine.

I tried editing /usr/share/foreman/app/models/compute_resources/foreman/model/vmware.rb, going to line 611 and replacing

:boot_order => ['network','disk']

with

:boot_order => ['disk','network']

But that didn't have an effect, it still tried to netbook first.

Updating vmware.rb did work after all, just had to restart Foreman for some reason. Provisioning works fine from start to finish now, though I suspect the lack of net boot as the top-priority boot option will impair the ability to rebuild the host.

We had a similar issue, so I ended up writing a plugin to make it easier to deal with; https://github.com/ananace/foreman_specifictemplate

With that one in place then all you need to do is to do a HTTP request before the reboot to have Foreman deploy a local boot template for you.

Not a perfect workaround, but it avoids having to do manual boot order swapping, or losing lifecycle management due to only booting locally. (Which is admittedly mostly an issue for physical hardware)

Alexander Olofsson wrote:

We had a similar issue, so I ended up writing a plugin to make it easier to deal with; https://github.com/ananace/foreman_specifictemplate

With that one in place then all you need to do is to do a HTTP request before the reboot to have Foreman deploy a local boot template for you.

Not a perfect workaround, but it avoids having to do manual boot order swapping, or losing lifecycle management due to only booting locally. (Which is admittedly mostly an issue for physical hardware)

Works great! Had to make a couple changes to get it to work with your example code, but I'm not sure that it's me just not understanding templates well.