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Abiquo 5.4 adds new guest setup options for Windows in Amazon AWS via API. These options are available in the UI in Abiquo 5.4.1.

These options are:

• CLOUDBASE_INIT 

• EC2LAUNCH_V2

• EC2LAUNCH

• EC2CONFIG

VM variables

After you launch your VM, you can find the VM variables at:

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In the Bootstrap script, users should be able to add any script because AWS passes the script to the instance in UserData as a MIME multi-part message with content type a text/x-shellscript content type. (See https://cloudbase-init.readthedocs.io/en/latest/userdata.html#multi-part-content)

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You must enclose the bootstrap script with <script></script> tags for a batch script and <powershell></powershell> tags for a powershell script.

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The bootstrap script should be in a yaml YAML format. See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/WindowsGuide/ec2-windows-user-data.html#user-data-yaml-scripts

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Summary of example template names:

• ec2 launch v2:

   EC2LaunchV2

   EC2LaunchV2_Preview-Windows_Server-2019-English-Core-Base-2021.08.11.

• ec2launch:

  "

  Microsoft Windows Server 2019 Base

  "

   

• ec2Config:

  "

  Windows Server 2012 R2

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  and earlier.

• cloud-init (Linux):

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  Amazon Linux 2 AMI (HVM)

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