Thank you for adding the details of your work-around. More ideas are always helpful!
I'm also looking forward to an updated version of vmtools that recognize the 14.04 OS, rather than needing any kind of pre or post Deploy from Template workaround in order to handle building out to multiple DCs with different DNS requirements.
On the plus side, with all this spare time from not moving forward with that project, there is plenty of time to spend on playing in the alternative virtualization OS test lab. ^_<
Hopefully it's available before too much longer.