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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 +(% 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 +
143 +{{code language="bash"}}
144 +unset HISTFILE
145 +export HISTSIZE=0
146 +export HISTFILESIZE=0
147 +
148 +sudo rm /.bash_history
149 +rm ~/.bash_history
150 +{{/code}}
151 +
141 141  **qemu-guest-agent** is for allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
142 142  
143 143  {{code language="bash"}}
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149 149  sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent.service
150 150  {{/code}}
151 151  
152 -**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same templat
163 +**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same template
153 153  
154 154  {{code language="bash"}}
155 155  cat /dev/null > /etc/machine-id
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158 158  
159 159  **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.
160 160  
172 +If you used a cloud-init base image it will have run the default cloudinit which installs and configures a bunch of s
161 161  
174 +{{code language="bash"}}
175 +cloud-init clean
176 +{{/code}}
177 +
162 162  This is a debian example of what we are looking for:
163 163  
164 164  {{code language="yaml"}}
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167 167  # A set of users which may be applied and/or used by various modules
168 168  # when a 'default' entry is found it will reference the 'default_user'
169 169  # from the distro configuration specified below
170 -users:
171 - - default
172 172  
173 173  # If this is set, 'root' will not be able to ssh in and they
174 174  # will get a message to login instead as the default $user
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182 182   # which has been a source of surprise.
183 183   preserve_sources_list: true
184 184  
199 +# manually managed resolv
200 +manage_resolv_conf: false
201 +
202 +package_update: true
203 +packages:
204 + - qemu-guest-agent
205 +
185 185  # The modules that run in the 'init' stage
186 186  cloud_init_modules:
187 187   - seed_random
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201 201  
202 202  # The modules that run in the 'config' stage
203 203  cloud_config_modules:
225 + - keyboard
204 204   - locale
205 205   - set-passwords
206 206   - grub-dpkg
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227 227   - final-message
228 228   - power-state-change
229 229  
252 +runcmd:
253 + - systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent.service
254 +
230 230  # System and/or distro specific settings
231 231  # (not accessible to handlers/transforms)
232 232  system_info:
233 233   # This will affect which distro class gets used
234 234   distro: debian
235 - # Default user name + that default users groups (if added/used)
236 - default_user:
237 - name: debian
238 - lock_passwd: True
239 - gecos: Debian
240 - groups: [sudo]
241 - # Disables password-less sudo commands for default/debian user
242 - sudo: ["ALL=(ALL) ALL"]
243 - shell: /bin/bash
244 244   # Other config here will be given to the distro class and/or path classes
245 245   paths:
246 246   cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/