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I resolved this by adding 'mac' as global variable. Afterwards MAC input was visible in 'Create Host/Network' view.

Hi,

After i choose the "deploy on" field under host the "mac" field under network gets it style changed to "display: none".
When i then hit the submit button i get the error message that the mac address is missing.

The mac field is left with this style / tree layout

<div id="mac_address" style="display: none;">
   <div class="control-group  ">
     <label class="control-label" for="mac">MAC</label>
     <div class="controls">
       <input autocomplete="off" id="host_mac" name="host[mac]" size="30" type="text" value="">
       <span class="help-inline">MAC address for this host</span>
       <span class="help-block"></span>
      </div>
   </div>
</div>

Hi,

running foreman 1.2 I get the same error on a standalone esxi 5.1 after appying the patch from here:

http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/1945

It works fine on a vSphere Cluster.

Maybe this is related?

Hello,

I've tried this on 1.4.1-3 and on the nightly(~1 week old as well as one from today) and the problem persists for me.
Without the patch in #1945 I get the usual "requires cluster" message regardless of version. With the patch on 1.4.x I run into the uuid problem in #4590 . With the patch on nightly I run into this message: "undefined method `new' for "VirtualE1000":String".

Regards
Johan

Is there any update on this? I just set up Foreman 1.7 to manage two VMWare hosts and am having this exact issue (once I manually patched the issue from #1945). Does anyone have a workaround? Can we get any sort of traction on a fix? What seems like a relatively small bug like this lingering for over a year is worrisome.