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Introduction
Abiquo 3.10 introduced the Configuration drive feature in private cloud datacenters for automating first boot configuration.
Supported hypervisors:
- ESXi
- Hyper-V
- XenServer
- KVM
- Oracle VM
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Abiquo places the Bootstrap script content in a user_data file and the variables in a vm-variables.rc file. Abiquo also creates Configuration drive meta_data.json file. For example, Abiquo supplies the virtual machine’s unique identifier to configure the default virtual machine hostname. However, for example, the user can override the hostname in the Bootstrap script. Abiquo can also add the SSH public key, if the user has one. And if there is no DHCP service in the datacenter, Abiquo will inject the network configuration.
When the user deploys the virtual machine, Abiquo copies and uploads the configuration data to the hypervisor and attaches an ISO disk with this data to the VM. The ISO disk will count towards the limit of a maximum of 4 IDE drives per virtual machine. At first boot, cloud-init configures the virtual machine.
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