Vcenter Vm Guest Customization Live APIs
The Vcenter Vm Guest CustomizationLive resource provides operations to apply a customization specification to a virtual machine in powered-on status. If it needs to apply a customization specification to a powered-off virtual machine, please use Vcenter Vm Guest Customization.
Live customization only supports the Vcenter Guest ConfigurationSpec in RunSpec being configured as Vcenter Guest ConfigurationSpec.linux_config, also the Vcenter Guest LinuxConfiguration.script_text is not supported yet. If it needs to support other configurations please use Vcenter Vm Guest Customization.
Before using the Vcenter Vm Guest CustomizationLive resource, the Guest Customization Engine needs to be installed in the virtual machine. For the steps to install please see: Guest Customization Engine
This resource was added in vSphere API 9.0.0.0.