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Added additional vmware info, fixed cli help

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|Kernel command line: `cloud-config-url=http://example.com/user_data`.| You can find this string using this command `cat /proc/cmdline`. Usually used in [PXE](/os/docs/latest/booting-with-pxe.html) or [iPXE](/os/docs/latest/booting-with-ipxe.html) boots.|
|`/var/lib/coreos-install/user_data`| When you install CoreOS manually using the [coreos-install](/os/docs/latest/installing-to-disk.html) tool. Usually used in bare metal installations.|
|`/usr/share/oem/cloud-config.yml`| Path for OEM images.|
|`/var/lib/coreos-vagrant/vagrantfile-user-data`| Vagrant OEM scripts automatically store Cloud-Config into this path. |
|`/var/lib/waagent/CustomData`| Azure platform uses OEM path for first Cloud-Config initialization and then `/var/lib/waagent/CustomData` to apply your settings.|
|`http://169.254.169.254/metadata/v1/user-data` `http://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/user-data` `https://metadata.packet.net/userdata`|DigitalOcean, EC2 and Packet cloud providers correspondingly use these URLs to download Cloud-Config.|
|`/usr/share/oem/bin/vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.coreos.config.data"`|Cloud-Config provided by [VMware Backdoor][VMware Backdoor]|
|`/usr/share/oem/bin/vmtoolsd --cmd "info-get guestinfo.coreos.config.url"`|Cloud-Config URL provided by [VMware Backdoor][VMware Backdoor]|
[VMware Backdoor]: vmware-backdoor.md
You can also run the `coreos-cloudinit` tool manually and provide a path to your custom Cloud-Config file:

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# VMware Backdoor #
# VMware Backdoor
## Cloud-Config Options List
coreos-cloudinit is capable of reading userdata and metadata from the VMware
backdoor. This datasource can be enable with the `--from-vmware-backdoor` flag.
backdoor. This datasource can be enabled with the `--from-vmware-backdoor` flag.
Userdata and metadata are passed from the hypervisor to the virtual machine
through guest variables. The following guest variables and their expected types
are supported by coreos-cloudinit:
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Note: "n", "m", "l", and "x" are 0-indexed, incrementing integers. The
identifier for the interfaces does not correspond to anything outside of this
configuration; it is merely for mapping configuration values to each interface.
Please refer to [link][vmware] to know more how to run CoreOS on VMware.
[vmware]: https://github.com/coreos/docs/blob/master/os/booting-on-vmware.md

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dss := getDatasources()
if len(dss) == 0 {
fmt.Println("Provide at least one of --from-file, --from-configdrive, --from-ec2-metadata, --from-cloudsigma-metadata, --from-packet-metadata, --from-url or --from-proc-cmdline")
fmt.Println("Provide at least one of --from-file, --from-configdrive, --from-ec2-metadata, --from-cloudsigma-metadata, --from-packet-metadata, --from-vmware-backdoor, --from-digitalocean-metadata, --from-vmware-backdoor, --from-waagent, --from-url or --from-proc-cmdline")
os.Exit(2)
}