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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:
141 +qemu-guest-agent is for allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
142 142  
143 -**qemu-guest-agent** is for allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
144 -
145 145  {{code language="bash"}}
146 146  sudo apt update
147 147  sudo apt upgrade -y
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151 151  sudo systemctl start qemu-guest-agent.service
152 152  {{/code}}
153 153  
154 -**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same template
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.
155 155  
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 -
167 167  This is a debian example of what we are looking for:
168 168  
169 169  {{code language="yaml"}}
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172 172  # A set of users which may be applied and/or used by various modules
173 173  # when a 'default' entry is found it will reference the 'default_user'
174 174  # from the distro configuration specified below
162 +users:
163 + - default
175 175  
176 176  # If this is set, 'root' will not be able to ssh in and they
177 177  # will get a message to login instead as the default $user
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185 185   # which has been a source of surprise.
186 186   preserve_sources_list: true
187 187  
188 -# manually managed resolv
189 -manage_resolv_conf: false
190 -
191 -package_update: true
192 -packages:
193 - - qemu-guest-agent
194 -
195 195  # The modules that run in the 'init' stage
196 196  cloud_init_modules:
197 197   - seed_random
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211 211  
212 212  # The modules that run in the 'config' stage
213 213  cloud_config_modules:
214 - - keyboard
215 215   - locale
216 216   - set-passwords
217 217   - grub-dpkg
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238 238   - final-message
239 239   - power-state-change
240 240  
241 -runcmd:
242 - - systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent.service
243 -
244 244  # System and/or distro specific settings
245 245  # (not accessible to handlers/transforms)
246 246  system_info:
247 247   # This will affect which distro class gets used
248 248   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
249 249   # Other config here will be given to the distro class and/or path classes
250 250   paths:
251 251   cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/