Chris Bradshaw • 9/25/2014

Customisation of Server 2012R2 in VMware ESX 5 VM fails

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This technical article addresses a specific VMware ESXi 5.0.U2 error ('Customization of the guest operating system ‘windows8Server64Guest’ is not supported') that occurs when deploying a Windows Server 2012 R2 virtual machine from a template. It provides a concise solution: installing VMware Tools on the source template VM before retrying the deployment operation.

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