Guest setup

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

Functionality	Hypervisor tools	Cloud-init DC	Cloud-init public

Functionality	Hypervisor tools	Cloud-init DC	Cloud-init public
Set fully qualified domain name (FQDN)
Generate a random password at deploy and optionally send by email and/or SMS to owner. See Customize emails for guest password and Customize emails for guest password SMS			Azure Amazon
Inject network configuration if no DHCP server is available
Inject SSH keys into guest.
Configuration drive with environment variables and user-data presented to guest OS on an ISO disk.
VM variables as metadata
Bootstrap script or cloud configuration

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:

Use guest setup to configure Windows instances in AWS