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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  
143 143  {{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 +
152 +**qemu-guest-agent** is for allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
153 +
154 +{{code language="bash"}}
144 144  sudo apt update
145 145  sudo apt upgrade -y
146 146  sudo apt install qemu-guest-agent -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.
163 +**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same template
153 153  
165 +{{code language="bash"}}
166 +cat /dev/null > /etc/machine-id
167 +cat /dev/null > /var/lib/dbus/machine-id
168 +{{/code}}
169 +
170 +**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.
171 +
172 +If you used a cloud-init base image it will have run the default cloudinit which installs and configures a bunch of s
173 +
174 +{{code language="bash"}}
175 +cloud-init clean
176 +{{/code}}
177 +
178 +This is a debian example of what we are looking for:
179 +
154 154  {{code language="yaml"}}
155 155  # The top level settings are used as module
156 156  # and system configuration.
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157 157  # A set of users which may be applied and/or used by various modules
158 158  # when a 'default' entry is found it will reference the 'default_user'
159 159  # from the distro configuration specified below
160 -users:
161 - - default
162 162  
163 -
164 164  # If this is set, 'root' will not be able to ssh in and they
165 165  # will get a message to login instead as the default $user
166 166  disable_root: true
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173 173   # which has been a source of surprise.
174 174   preserve_sources_list: true
175 175  
176 -# If you use datasource_list array, keep array items in a single line.
177 -# If you use multi line array, ds-identify script won't read array items.
178 -# Example datasource config
179 -# datasource:
180 -# Ec2:
181 -# metadata_urls: [ 'blah.com' ]
182 -# timeout: 5 # (defaults to 50 seconds)
183 -# max_wait: 10 # (defaults to 120 seconds)
199 +# manually managed resolv
200 +manage_resolv_conf: false
184 184  
202 +package_update: true
203 +packages:
204 + - qemu-guest-agent
185 185  
186 -
187 -
188 188  # The modules that run in the 'init' stage
189 189  cloud_init_modules:
190 190   - seed_random
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204 204  
205 205  # The modules that run in the 'config' stage
206 206  cloud_config_modules:
207 - - snap
208 - - ssh-import-id
209 209   - keyboard
210 210   - locale
211 211   - set-passwords
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216 216   - timezone
217 217   - disable-ec2-metadata
218 218   - runcmd
219 - - byobu
220 220  
221 221  # The modules that run in the 'final' stage
222 222  cloud_final_modules:
223 223   - package-update-upgrade-install
224 - - fan
225 - - landscape
226 - - lxd
227 227   - write-files-deferred
228 - - puppet
229 - - chef
230 - - mcollective
231 - - salt-minion
232 - - reset_rmc
233 233   - scripts-vendor
234 234   - scripts-per-once
235 235   - scripts-per-boot
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236 236   - scripts-per-instance
237 237   - scripts-user
238 238   - ssh-authkey-fingerprints
239 - - keys-to-console
246 +# - keys-to-console
240 240   - install-hotplug
241 - - phone-home
248 +# - phone-home
242 242   - final-message
243 243   - power-state-change
244 244  
252 +runcmd:
253 + - systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent.service
254 +
245 245  # System and/or distro specific settings
246 246  # (not accessible to handlers/transforms)
247 247  system_info:
248 248   # This will affect which distro class gets used
249 249   distro: debian
250 - # Default user name + that default users groups (if added/used)
251 - default_user:
252 - name: debian
253 - lock_passwd: True
254 - gecos: Debian
255 - groups: [adm, audio, cdrom, dialout, dip, floppy, plugdev, sudo, video]
256 - sudo: ["ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL"]
257 - shell: /bin/bash
258 258   # Other config here will be given to the distro class and/or path classes
259 259   paths:
260 260   cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/
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265 265   primary: https://deb.debian.org/debian
266 266   security: https://deb.debian.org/debian-security
267 267   ssh_svcname: ssh
268 -
269 269  {{/code}}
270 270  
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