If you are getting the error “Customization of the guest operating system not supported in this configuration” that means you are provisioning through OS which does not support auto customization. You can see the below table which does not support auto customization.
Support Considerations:
- The OS release must also be supported as a Guest OS by the ESX or ESXi host, which can be determined in the VMware Compatibility Guide.
- Unless stated otherwise, all OS editions and 32-bit/64-bit variants are supported.
- Unless specified otherwise, all SP, minor or maintenance versions are supported.
Key:
No = Not supported
Yes = Supported
Yes1 = Supported from Update 1
Yes2 = Supported from Update 2
Yes3 = Supported from Update 3
| vCenter Version | |||||||
| OS Release | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.0 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 6.0 | 6.5 |
| Windows Server 2016 (a) | No | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2012 R2 | No | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2012 | No | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2008 R2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2008 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2003 R2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2003 (b) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Server 2000 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Windows 10 | No | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes1 | Yes |
| Windows 8.1 | No | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows 8 | No | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows 7 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows Vista | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Windows XP (b) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x | No | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| CentOS 7.x | No | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes | Yes |
| CentOS 6.x | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
| CentOS 5.x | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
| Oracle Linux 7.x | No | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes | Yes |
| Oracle Linux 6.x | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
| Oracle Linux 5.x | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
| SLES 12 SP2 (c) | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
| SLES 12 SP1 | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
| SLES 12 SP0 | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
| SLES 11 SP4 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes1 | Yes |
| SLES 11 SP3 | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SLES 11 SP2 | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| SLES 11 SP1 | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| SLES 11 SP0 | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
| SLES 10 SP4 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SLES 10 SP3 through 10 SP0 | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| SLES 9 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| SLES 8 | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Ubuntu 16.10 | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | No | No | No | No | Yes 3 | Yes | Yes |
| Ubuntu 15.10 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Ubuntu 15.04 | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Ubuntu 14.10 | No | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes | Yes |
| Ubuntu 14.04 LTS | No | No | No | Yes3 | Yes2 | Yes | Yes |
| Ubuntu 13.10 | No | No | No | No | Yes1 | Yes | Yes |
| Ubuntu 13.04 | No | No | No | No | Yes1 | Yes | Yes |
| Ubuntu 12.10 | No | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | No | No |
| Ubuntu 12.04 LTS | No | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ubuntu 11.10 | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Ubuntu 11.04 | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Ubuntu 10.10 | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| Ubuntu 10.04 LTS | No | Yes2 | Yes1 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ubuntu 9.10 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Ubuntu 9.04 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
| Ubuntu 8.10 | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Ubuntu 8.04 LTS | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Support Notes:
(a)Guest Customization of Nano Server is not supported.
(b) vCenter 6.5 is the last release to support Guest Customization for Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. However, ESXi 6.5 is not the last release to support running Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. For more details on ESXi support of guest operating systems see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
(c) Guest OS Customization of SLES does not support NetworkManager, required use of Wicked.
In order to fix this error follow the steps below:
Step 1). Login in to your Whmcs admin
Step 2). Go to WGS VMware addon >> OS mapping >> VM/cloning/mapping edit that OS from which you are cloning.
Step 3). Disable the IP customization.
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What will happen if you disable that option?
In that case Network adapter setting will not auto configure. We will send the Network details including IP’s through Server info email template.
