Current situation
For VMware only DHCP works to set up networking in the initramfs, static IP addresses or special settings can't be used because they require to be passed via kernel command line
Impact
VMware with static IP addresses means no remote content can be fetched with Ignition, this also impacts our CI coverage
Ideal future situation
The initramfs network can be configured through guestinfo settings
Implementation options
Put the new afterburn-network-kargs.service from https://github.com/coreos/afterburn/blob/main/dracut/30afterburn/afterburn-network-kargs.service in our bootengine dracut setup
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