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Last modified by Kevin Wiki on 2026/05/18 15:44
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138 138  
139 139  After creating the VM and before making it into a template there are some programs and settings we want to ensure exists always.
140 140  
141 -qemu-guest-agent is for allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
141 +(% id="cke_bm_721114S" style="display:none" %)** **(%%)**clear bash history** to not leave any configuration in history, clear and disable history file before proceeding:
142 142  
143 +**qemu-guest-agent** is for allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
144 +
143 143  {{code language="bash"}}
144 144  sudo apt update
145 145  sudo apt upgrade -y
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149 149  sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent.service
150 150  {{/code}}
151 151  
152 -cloud-init is a great hook for installing or configuring programs or receiving variables from cloudinit CDROM drive. Making it easier to change IP, hostname, DNS, username/password, etc between VMs.
154 +**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same template
153 153  
156 +{{code language="bash"}}
157 +cat /dev/null > /etc/machine-id
158 +cat /dev/null > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
159 +{{/code}}
160 +
161 +**cloud-init** is a great hook for installing or configuring programs or receiving variables from cloudinit CDROM drive. Making it easier to change IP, hostname, DNS, username/password, etc between VMs
162 +
163 +{{code language="bash"}}
164 +cloud-init clean
165 +{{/code}}
166 +
154 154  This is a debian example of what we are looking for:
155 155  
156 156  {{code language="yaml"}}
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159 159  # A set of users which may be applied and/or used by various modules
160 160  # when a 'default' entry is found it will reference the 'default_user'
161 161  # from the distro configuration specified below
162 -users:
163 - - default
164 164  
165 165  # If this is set, 'root' will not be able to ssh in and they
166 166  # will get a message to login instead as the default $user
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174 174   # which has been a source of surprise.
175 175   preserve_sources_list: true
176 176  
188 +# manually managed resolv
189 +manage_resolv_conf: false
190 +
191 +package_update: true
192 +packages:
193 + - qemu-guest-agent
194 +
177 177  # The modules that run in the 'init' stage
178 178  cloud_init_modules:
179 179   - seed_random
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193 193  
194 194  # The modules that run in the 'config' stage
195 195  cloud_config_modules:
214 + - keyboard
196 196   - locale
197 197   - set-passwords
198 198   - grub-dpkg
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219 219   - final-message
220 220   - power-state-change
221 221  
241 +runcmd:
242 + - systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent.service
243 +
222 222  # System and/or distro specific settings
223 223  # (not accessible to handlers/transforms)
224 224  system_info:
225 225   # This will affect which distro class gets used
226 226   distro: debian
227 - # Default user name + that default users groups (if added/used)
228 - default_user:
229 - name: debian
230 - lock_passwd: True
231 - gecos: Debian
232 - groups: [sudo]
233 - # Disables password-less sudo commands for default/debian user
234 - sudo: ["ALL=(ALL) ALL"]
235 - shell: /bin/bash
236 236   # Other config here will be given to the distro class and/or path classes
237 237   paths:
238 238   cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/