root@pltsol1-dhcp62:/opt/vmware/etc/vami# cat /opt/vmware/etc/vami/ovfEnv.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Environment
     xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/environment/1"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xmlns:oe="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/environment/1"
     xmlns:ve="http://www.vmware.com/schema/ovfenv"
     oe:id="">
   <PropertySection>
         <Property oe:key="vami.hostname" oe:value="myhostname.whatever.com"/>
   </PropertySection>
</Environment>

root@pltsol1-dhcp62:/opt/vmware/etc/vami# /opt/vmware/share/vami/vami_ovf_process -n
Appliance Name -
Configuration for eth0 found
Hostname: myhostname.whatever.com

root@pltsol1-dhcp62:/opt/vmware/etc/vami/flags# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1  myhostname.whatever.com myhostname localhost
::1     myhostname.whatever.com myhostname localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

root@pltsol1-dhcp62:/opt/vmware/etc/vami/flags# ls -al /opt/vmware/etc/vami/flags/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct  6 00:56 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct  6 00:56 ..
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Sep 14 04:36 vami_sethostname
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Sep 14 04:36 vami_setnetwork
...