✨ Community Announcement: Plugin Transferred to Broadcom! ✨

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We're excited to share some news about the Packer plugin for VMware vSphere!

The development and maintenance of this plugin transferred from HashiCorp to Broadcom under the github.com/vmware organization on January 27, 2026 🥳 🎉

Over the past few years, we have established a valuable partnership with the Packer team at HashiCorp, and we're incredibly grateful for their contributions and continued guidance.

This transition underscores our dedication to the plugin and our commitment to:

• Continuing development: We are eager to invest in the plugin's future, bringing new features and improvements to better serve your needs.

• Maintaining stability: We will continue to iterate to enhance the plugin's stability and reliability for your image automation workflows.

• Fostering community engagement: We highly value your feedback and look forward to collaborating with you on the plugin's evolution.

Tip

No changes are required in your configurations and i
nitialization will be automatically redirected from github.com/hashicorp/packer-plugin-vsphere to github.com/vmware/packer-plugin-vsphere. However, we encourage you to consider updating your configurations to source vmware/vsphere in the packer block.

packer {
 required_version = ">= 1.7.0"
 required_plugins {
   vsphere = {
     version = ">= 2.0.0"
     source  = "github.com/vmware/vsphere"
   }
 }
}

We're excited about this next step and the opportunity to further enhance the plugin in collaboration with you.

Ryan Johnson
VMware by Broadcom
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