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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.
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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 allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
142 142  
143 143  {{code language="bash"}}
144 144  sudo apt update
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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
152 +**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same templat
153 153  
154 +{{code language="bash"}}
155 +cat /dev/null > /etc/machine-id
156 +cat /dev/null > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
157 +{{/code}}
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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.
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162 +This is a debian example of what we are looking for:
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164 +{{code language="yaml"}}
165 +# The top level settings are used as module
166 +# and system configuration.
167 +# A set of users which may be applied and/or used by various modules
168 +# when a 'default' entry is found it will reference the 'default_user'
169 +# from the distro configuration specified below
170 +users:
171 + - default
172 +
173 +# If this is set, 'root' will not be able to ssh in and they
174 +# will get a message to login instead as the default $user
175 +disable_root: true
176 +
177 +# This will cause the set+update hostname module to not operate (if true)
178 +preserve_hostname: false
179 +
180 +apt:
181 + # This prevents cloud-init from rewriting apt's sources.list file,
182 + # which has been a source of surprise.
183 + preserve_sources_list: true
184 +
185 +# The modules that run in the 'init' stage
186 +cloud_init_modules:
187 + - seed_random
188 + - bootcmd
189 + - write-files
190 + - growpart
191 + - resizefs
192 + - disk_setup
193 + - mounts
194 + - set_hostname
195 + - update_hostname
196 + - update_etc_hosts
197 + - ca-certs
198 + - rsyslog
199 + - users-groups
200 + - ssh
201 +
202 +# The modules that run in the 'config' stage
203 +cloud_config_modules:
204 + - locale
205 + - set-passwords
206 + - grub-dpkg
207 + - apt-pipelining
208 + - apt-configure
209 + - ntp
210 + - timezone
211 + - disable-ec2-metadata
212 + - runcmd
213 +
214 +# The modules that run in the 'final' stage
215 +cloud_final_modules:
216 + - package-update-upgrade-install
217 + - write-files-deferred
218 + - scripts-vendor
219 + - scripts-per-once
220 + - scripts-per-boot
221 + - scripts-per-instance
222 + - scripts-user
223 + - ssh-authkey-fingerprints
224 +# - keys-to-console
225 + - install-hotplug
226 +# - phone-home
227 + - final-message
228 + - power-state-change
229 +
230 +# System and/or distro specific settings
231 +# (not accessible to handlers/transforms)
232 +system_info:
233 + # This will affect which distro class gets used
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 + # Other config here will be given to the distro class and/or path classes
245 + paths:
246 + cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/
247 + templates_dir: /etc/cloud/templates/
248 + package_mirrors:
249 + - arches: [default]
250 + failsafe:
251 + primary: https://deb.debian.org/debian
252 + security: https://deb.debian.org/debian-security
253 + ssh_svcname: ssh
254 +{{/code}}
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159 159  )))
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