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Last modified by Kevin Wiki on 2026/05/18 15:44
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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 +qemu-guest-agent is for
142 142  
143 -{{code language="bash"}}
144 -sudo apt update
145 -sudo apt upgrade -y
146 -sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent -y
147 -
148 -sudo systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent.service
149 -sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent.service
150 -{{/code}}
151 -
152 -**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same template
153 -
154 -{{code language="bash"}}
155 -cat /dev/null > /etc/machine-id
156 -cat /dev/null > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
157 -{{/code}}
158 -
159 -**clear bash history** to not leave any configuration in history
160 -
161 -
162 -**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
163 -
164 -{{code language="bash"}}
165 -cloud-init clean
166 -{{/code}}
167 -
168 -This is a debian example of what we are looking for:
169 -
170 -{{code language="yaml"}}
171 -# The top level settings are used as module
172 -# and system configuration.
173 -# A set of users which may be applied and/or used by various modules
174 -# when a 'default' entry is found it will reference the 'default_user'
175 -# from the distro configuration specified below
176 -users:
177 - - default
178 -
179 -# If this is set, 'root' will not be able to ssh in and they
180 -# will get a message to login instead as the default $user
181 -disable_root: true
182 -
183 -# This will cause the set+update hostname module to not operate (if true)
184 -preserve_hostname: false
185 -
186 -apt:
187 - # This prevents cloud-init from rewriting apt's sources.list file,
188 - # which has been a source of surprise.
189 - preserve_sources_list: true
190 -
191 -# The modules that run in the 'init' stage
192 -cloud_init_modules:
193 - - seed_random
194 - - bootcmd
195 - - write-files
196 - - growpart
197 - - resizefs
198 - - disk_setup
199 - - mounts
200 - - set_hostname
201 - - update_hostname
202 - - update_etc_hosts
203 - - ca-certs
204 - - rsyslog
205 - - users-groups
206 - - ssh
207 -
208 -# The modules that run in the 'config' stage
209 -cloud_config_modules:
210 - - locale
211 - - set-passwords
212 - - grub-dpkg
213 - - apt-pipelining
214 - - apt-configure
215 - - ntp
216 - - timezone
217 - - disable-ec2-metadata
218 - - runcmd
219 -
220 -# The modules that run in the 'final' stage
221 -cloud_final_modules:
222 - - package-update-upgrade-install
223 - - write-files-deferred
224 - - scripts-vendor
225 - - scripts-per-once
226 - - scripts-per-boot
227 - - scripts-per-instance
228 - - scripts-user
229 - - ssh-authkey-fingerprints
230 -# - keys-to-console
231 - - install-hotplug
232 -# - phone-home
233 - - final-message
234 - - power-state-change
235 -
236 -# System and/or distro specific settings
237 -# (not accessible to handlers/transforms)
238 -system_info:
239 - # This will affect which distro class gets used
240 - distro: debian
241 - # Default user name + that default users groups (if added/used)
242 - default_user:
243 - name: debian
244 - lock_passwd: True
245 - gecos: Debian
246 - groups: [sudo]
247 - # Disables password-less sudo commands for default/debian user
248 - sudo: ["ALL=(ALL) ALL"]
249 - shell: /bin/bash
250 - # Other config here will be given to the distro class and/or path classes
251 - paths:
252 - cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/
253 - templates_dir: /etc/cloud/templates/
254 - package_mirrors:
255 - - arches: [default]
256 - failsafe:
257 - primary: https://deb.debian.org/debian
258 - security: https://deb.debian.org/debian-security
259 - ssh_svcname: ssh
260 -{{/code}}
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267 267  )))
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