Guestcustomization for Centos Stream 10 / RHEL 10 broken

[jpbuecken]

Describe the bug

Hello,

we are currently testing with CentOS Stream 10 / Redhat Enterprise Linux 10.
Unfortunately, the vmware guest customization fails in the network part.
We already found the root cause.

Network management is done via network manager in CentOS 10. A network manager connection profile is created successfully, but the guest customization still wants to create
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
files. But the folder
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
does not exist, so it fails.

This is the message from the toolsDeployPkg.log
2025-01-30T13:06:47 DEBUG: opening file for writing (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0).
2025-01-30T13:06:47 ERROR: Fatal error occurred during customization !! Customization halted.
2025-01-30T13:06:47 ERROR: Error : No such file or directory:Error writing data to file (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0). No such file or directory at /var/run/.vmware-imgcust-dYgea8Y/scripts/Utils.pm line 655.

Version:
open-vm-tools-12.5.0-1.el10.x86_64

Reproduction steps

1. Use CentOS Stream 10 vapp template to deploy a VM with guest customization.
2. see error above

Expected behavior

open-vm-tools should not try to create ifcg files on CentOS or RHEL 10. They have been deprecated with RHEL 9

Additional context

No response