In private cloud datacenters, Abiquo supports guest setup with cloud init or hypervisor tools. In public cloud providers, Abiquo supports cloud init, and in AWS it also supports provider setup tools. Guest setup runs the first time you deploy a VM. The hypervisor tools guest setup also runs when you add a NIC. If the guest setup is not successful, the VM deploy or reconfigure will fail and roll back.
Table of guest setup functionality
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Set fully qualified domain name (FQDN) |
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Generate a random password at deploy and |
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Inject network configuration if no DHCP server is available |
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Inject SSH keys into guest. |
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Configuration drive with environment variables and |
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VM variables as metadata |
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Bootstrap script or cloud configuration |
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Notes:
- For Windows with hypervisor tools, use a custom specification instead of an unattend file. See Limitations of a custom specification to configure Windows
- For Linux with hypervisor tools, the platform will inject a global DNS configuration that will apply to all NICs on the VM
- See Configuration drive
Configure guest setup
To configure guest setup, see:
And: