Getting metadata from within VMWare Guest OS

Posted by Robert Wilson on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Robert Wilson
Published on 2010-05-25T09:39:12Z Indexed on 2010/05/25 9:51 UTC
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Is there a way to get metadata (i.e. VM Name, Annotations, etc.) from within the Guest OS? I'm using a Ubuntu JeOS template and want to run a script on startup which configures new VMs according to the metadata. This is on VMWare ESX.

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