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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 -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 +**qemu-guest-agent** is for allowing proxmox to query information from the VM such as IP address, shutdown commands, etc
144 +
143 143  {{code language="bash"}}
144 144  sudo apt update
145 145  sudo apt upgrade -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.
154 +**reset machine-id** to not have overlapping ids from same template
153 153  
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 +This is a debian example of what we are looking for:
168 +
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  
163 163  # If this is set, 'root' will not be able to ssh in and they
164 164  # will get a message to login instead as the default $user
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172 172   # which has been a source of surprise.
173 173   preserve_sources_list: true
174 174  
188 +# manually managed resolv
189 +manage_resolv_conf: false
190 +
191 +package_update: true
192 +packages:
193 + - qemu-guest-agent
194 +
175 175  # The modules that run in the 'init' stage
176 176  cloud_init_modules:
177 177   - seed_random
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191 191  
192 192  # The modules that run in the 'config' stage
193 193  cloud_config_modules:
214 + - keyboard
194 194   - locale
195 195   - set-passwords
196 196   - grub-dpkg
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217 217   - final-message
218 218   - power-state-change
219 219  
241 +runcmd:
242 + - systemctl enable qemu-guest-agent.service
243 +
220 220  # System and/or distro specific settings
221 221  # (not accessible to handlers/transforms)
222 222  system_info:
223 223   # This will affect which distro class gets used
224 224   distro: debian
225 - # Default user name + that default users groups (if added/used)
226 - default_user:
227 - name: debian
228 - lock_passwd: True
229 - gecos: Debian
230 - groups: [sudo]
231 - # Disables password-less sudo commands for default/debian user
232 - sudo: ["ALL=(ALL) ALL"]
233 - shell: /bin/bash
234 234   # Other config here will be given to the distro class and/or path classes
235 235   paths:
236 236   cloud_dir: /var/lib/cloud/