CHANGELOG.md

@@ -15,6 +15,12 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - `reboot_host` on ESXi, refused outside maintenance mode.
 - Declares `open-vm-tools` as the guest agent for provisioned VMs.
 
+### Changed
+- The guest agent is declared per guest OS (`GUEST_AGENTS`, napalm-device-types
+  3.0); VMware provisions Linux guests only and refuses any other `guest_os`.
+- The NoCloud network-config comes from napalm-device-types
+  (`provisioning.network_config`), which Proxmox uses as well.
+
 ## [0.1.0] - 2026-09-24
 
 ### Added

README.md

@@ -123,7 +123,9 @@ offers for Proxmox (qcow2/raw):
 A port group fixes its VLAN, so `get_network_targets` reports each one with
 `kind="portgroup"`, `vlan_aware=False` and its `fixed_vlan_tag`; a NIC asking
 for a different `vlan_tag` is refused. The guest agent netOrk installs is
-`open-vm-tools` (`GUEST_AGENT_PACKAGES`), which reports the IP address back.
+`open-vm-tools` (`GUEST_AGENTS`), which reports the IP address back. Only
+Linux guests are provisioned; `guest_os` other than `"linux"` is refused
+(BSD guests on VMware: NetOrk/netork#801).
 
 Unverified until #305: that each distribution's cloud kernel carries the
 PVSCSI and VMXNET3 drivers.

napalm_vmware/provision/seed.py

@@ -31,20 +31,6 @@ def meta_data(hostname: str, instance_id: str) -> str:
     return yaml.safe_dump({"instance-id": instance_id, "local-hostname": hostname}, sort_keys=False)
 
 
-def network_config(nics: list[tuple[str, bool]]) -> dict[str, Any] | None:
-    """Netplan v2 config: DHCP on every ``(mac, dhcp)`` NIC that asks for it.
-
-    ``None`` when no NIC does -- cloud-init then leaves networking alone
-    rather than being told to configure nothing.
-    """
-    ethernets = {
-        f"nic{i}": {"match": {"macaddress": mac}, "dhcp4": True}
-        for i, (mac, dhcp) in enumerate(nics)
-        if dhcp
-    }
-    return {"version": 2, "ethernets": ethernets} if ethernets else None
-
-
 def nocloud_iso(user: str, meta: str, network: dict[str, Any] | None) -> bytes:
     """An ISO 9660 image (Rock Ridge + Joliet) holding the seed files."""
     files = {"user-data": user, "meta-data": meta}

napalm_vmware/provisioning.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ from napalm_device_types.models import (
     VMProvisionResultDict,
     VMStatusDict,
 )
+from napalm_device_types.provisioning import GuestAgents, network_config
 from pyVmomi import vim
 
 from napalm_vmware import paths
@@ -35,7 +36,7 @@ from napalm_vmware.provision.image import ImageCache
 from napalm_vmware.provision.ovf import ovf_descriptor
 from napalm_vmware.provision.placement import Inventory as PlacementInventory
 from napalm_vmware.provision.placement import Placement, choose_placement
-from napalm_vmware.provision.seed import meta_data, network_config, nocloud_iso, user_data
+from napalm_vmware.provision.seed import meta_data, nocloud_iso, user_data
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -48,11 +49,14 @@ _STATUS = {"poweredOn": "running", "poweredOff": "stopped", "suspended": "suspen
 class VmwareProvisioningMixin:
     """Mixed into both drivers ahead of :class:`VmwareBaseDriver`."""
 
-    GUEST_AGENT_PACKAGES: tuple[str, ...] = ("open-vm-tools",)
-    # The unit is open-vm-tools on Debian/Ubuntu and vmtoolsd on EL/Fedora.
-    GUEST_AGENT_RUNCMD: tuple[str, ...] = (
-        "systemctl enable --now open-vm-tools || systemctl enable --now vmtoolsd",
-    )
+    # Linux only: BSD guests on VMware are optional (NetOrk/netork#801). The
+    # unit is open-vm-tools on Debian/Ubuntu and vmtoolsd on EL/Fedora.
+    GUEST_AGENTS: GuestAgents = {
+        "linux": (
+            ("open-vm-tools",),
+            ("systemctl enable --now open-vm-tools || systemctl enable --now vmtoolsd",),
+        ),
+    }
 
     hostname: str
     _port: int
@@ -148,9 +152,12 @@ class VmwareProvisioningMixin:
         disk_resize_gb: int | None = None,
         storage: str | None = None,
         cpu_type: str | None = None,
+        guest_os: str = "linux",
         download_timeout: int = 300,
         timeout: int = 180,
     ) -> VMProvisionResultDict:
+        if guest_os not in self.GUEST_AGENTS:
+            raise ValueError(f"VMware provisions Linux guests only, not {guest_os!r}")
         if cpu_type is not None:
             # CPU compatibility is a cluster setting here (EVC), not a per-VM
             # one, and there is no get_vm_cpu_types() that could offer a model.

pyproject.toml

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 dependencies = [
     "napalm>=5.0.0",
-    "napalm-device-types>=2.0.0",
+    "napalm-device-types>=3.0.0",
     "pyvmomi>=8.0.1",
     # Provisioning: download the image, write the NoCloud seed ISO and its YAML.
     "requests>=2.31",

tests/test_drivers.py

@@ -94,8 +94,14 @@ class TestIdentity:
         assert callable(getattr(cls, method, None))
 
     @pytest.mark.parametrize("cls", DRIVERS)
-    def test_declares_its_guest_agent(self, cls):
-        assert cls.GUEST_AGENT_PACKAGES == ("open-vm-tools",)
+    def test_provisions_linux_guests_with_open_vm_tools(self, cls):
+        """Linux only: BSD guests on VMware are optional (NetOrk/netork#801)."""
+        assert cls.GUEST_AGENTS == {
+            "linux": (
+                ("open-vm-tools",),
+                ("systemctl enable --now open-vm-tools || systemctl enable --now vmtoolsd",),
+            ),
+        }
 
 
 class TestOptionalArgs:

tests/test_provision_seed.py

@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ import io
 
 import pycdlib
 import yaml
+from napalm_device_types import provisioning as generic
 
-from napalm_vmware.provision.seed import meta_data, network_config, nocloud_iso, user_data
+from napalm_vmware import provisioning as prov
+from napalm_vmware.provision import seed
+from napalm_vmware.provision.seed import meta_data, nocloud_iso, user_data
 
 
 class TestUserData:
@@ -34,17 +37,13 @@ def test_meta_data():
 
 
 class TestNetworkConfig:
-    def test_dhcp_nics_matched_by_mac(self):
-        cfg = network_config([("00:50:56:aa:bb:cc", True), ("00:50:56:aa:bb:dd", False)])
-        assert cfg == {
-            "version": 2,
-            "ethernets": {
-                "nic0": {"match": {"macaddress": "00:50:56:aa:bb:cc"}, "dhcp4": True},
-            },
-        }
+    """Written by napalm-device-types, which Proxmox uses as well (NetOrk/netork#794)."""
 
-    def test_no_dhcp_nic_means_no_network_config(self):
-        assert network_config([("00:50:56:aa:bb:cc", False)]) is None
+    def test_the_seed_is_built_with_the_generic_network_config(self):
+        assert prov.network_config is generic.network_config
+
+    def test_no_copy_of_it_is_left_here(self):
+        assert not hasattr(seed, "network_config")
 
 
 def _read(iso: bytes, name: str) -> str:

tests/test_provisioning.py

@@ -152,6 +152,18 @@ class TestCreate:
         staged.cache.return_value.vmdk.assert_not_called()
         staged.import_ovf.assert_not_called()
 
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize("guest_os", ["freebsd", "openbsd"])
+    def test_a_guest_other_than_linux_is_refused_before_anything_happens(
+        self, driver, staged, guest_os
+    ):
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError, match=guest_os):
+            _create(driver, guest_os=guest_os)
+        staged.cache.return_value.vmdk.assert_not_called()
+        staged.import_ovf.assert_not_called()
+
+    def test_linux_is_the_default_guest(self, driver, staged):
+        assert _create(driver, guest_os="linux")["vmid"] == "uuid-99"
+
     def test_placement_refusal_is_a_runtime_error(self, driver, staged):
         with patch.object(prov, "choose_placement", side_effect=ValueError("no host")):
             with pytest.raises(RuntimeError, match="no host"):