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Last modified by Kevin Wiki on 2026/05/18 09:20
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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}}
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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.
152 +**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same template
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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
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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 +
154 154  {{code language="yaml"}}
155 155  # The top level settings are used as module
156 156  # and system configuration.