[WIP] rough changes that fix vsphere vm's on master

[knuckolls]

I'm not sure if this should be merged in it's current form but I wanted to put this out there so people could see what I had to do to get vSphere vms working today.

Currently master pulls the network information too soon thus if anything wants to subsequently use the IP of the instance it fails. I believe this is documented in #6174 and this PR is a really rough fix for the problem. I solved this by adding in a loop that spins until the network information is not null. This probably needs a circuit breaker after some amount of time but it's effective.

I also am not sure if this would work at all with DHCP. It does work when all the addressing information is passed in statically. Furthermore, this fix (#6522) for pulling in the gateway routing information flat out didn't work for me (and I debugged it for hours) so I statically set the gateway based upon what's passed in from the configuration.

Hopefully someone finds this helpful. I'm going to use it as a stopgap for my purposes.

[knuckolls]

cc: @chrislovecnm. You seem to be commenting on all of the vSphere issues / PR's surrounding getting master to work. Thought you might find this useful as a starting point for a more robust solution.

[thetuxkeeper]

Hi @knuckolls,
can you try #6479 + #6377 that should fix the problem, but it is blocked by some other issues. We try to fix the acceptance tests first (that we can be sure it doesn't break other stuff) and ran into further issues (like #6522 and #6520).

[chrislovecnm]

@knuckolls thanks for the work. So we believe that there is a way to do this in the API - I am @ the airport so I cannot go into details.

I think we may have a better way to do this ;)

Again thanks for your work. We appreciate you committing and if you are interested in helping more, we definitely can use you help. Let me know if you want to coordinate more.

[chrislovecnm]

@knuckolls does #6377 address these problems? If so please close out this PR. BTW thanks for contributing, if you have an opportunity to help out, we have stuff to do :)

[stack72]

Hi @knuckolls / @chrislovecnm

Any thoughts on the status of this PR is this still needed or has #6377 got this covered?

Paul

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