Diagnostics:
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    panic: fatal: An assertion has failed: {<nil> <nil> <nil> <nil> 173f6e1d-e6a5-4d4d-9fe0-555c41c9faa0 <nil>}: cannot assign vsphere.virtualMachineClonePtrType to vsphere.VirtualMachineClone
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        /Users/lstigter/go/pkg/mod/github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v2@v2.0.0/go/common/util/contract/assert.go:33 +0x197
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        /Users/lstigter/go/pkg/mod/github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v2@v2.0.0/go/pulumi/rpc.go:102 +0x492
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        /Users/lstigter/go/pkg/mod/github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v2@v2.0.0/go/pulumi/context.go:776 +0x23a
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        /Users/lstigter/go/pkg/mod/github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v2@v2.0.0/go/pulumi/context.go:453 +0x154
    created by <http://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v2/go/pulumi.(*Context).RegisterResource|github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v2/go/pulumi.(*Context).RegisterResource>
        /Users/lstigter/go/pkg/mod/github.com/pulumi/pulumi/sdk/v2@v2.0.0/go/pulumi/context.go:441 +0x540
    exit status 2

The error indicates that

vsphere.virtualMachineClonePtrType to vsphere.VirtualMachineClone

though according to the syntax there’s nothing wrong 😞 The equivalent of this works flawlessly when I execute it with TypeScript 🤔

In my experience with the Pulumi Go SDK I have yet to need to instance a

...Input

object, so I think you need a different type there.

That works 🙌 Thanks @gentle-diamond-70147, to be fair I’m a little confused how that works because the struct says Clone is a

Clone VirtualMachineClonePtrInput

🤔 perhaps one or two lines of documentation would help developers realize there are a few options 😉

We do have these lines if you "click in" to the Go SDK - https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-vsphere/blob/master/sdk/go/vsphere/pulumiTypes.go#L761-L769.

Hmm 🤔 that works, though it seems the auto completion of structs in VS Code seems to not show that hint 😞 so it’s definitely a “Leon” problem 😉

Definitely not "just a Leon" problem. 🙂