WIP: Add VMware Vagrant Provider Support

[NeilHanlon]

This change introduces support for the vmware_desktop provider in Vagrant by generating a VMDK using the Vagrant subformat and embedding it into the resulting Vagrant box.

It also adds support for aarch64 VMware disks (and therefore, boxes) by enabling a sata option for the machine.vmdisk.controller attribute. This option is passed through to the VMware template while preserving the default IDE-based configuration for existing use cases.

Additionally, a pcibridge0 section has been added to the generated VMX configuration. This was required during testing to ensure the resulting image functioned properly.

Lastly, the vagrant_post_init method signature was updated to allow passing extra configuration options (custom_args) into the VMDK creation process, enabling more flexible build customization. Incidently, a type alias for the VagrantConfigDict (Dict['str', xml_parse.vagrantconfig]) was added to clean up long lines.

[NeilHanlon]

n.b., I know I need tests and to fix existing ones :D

[schaefi]

@NeilHanlon Hi, this looks great. Thanks much for the effort 👍

n.b., I know I need tests and to fix existing ones :D

yay :) once this is all green I'm very happy to merge it.

I wrote some documentation about the vagrant use case in the past. You can find this here

• ./working_with_images/disk_setup_for_vagrant.rst

I believe it would be good to add some information about the new provider and how to use it there too.

Thoughts ?

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[schaefi]

@NeilHanlon I guess you are also still working on this one ?

[schaefi]

Please let us know if you won't continue the effort. Thanks much

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