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

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