<html><body><div style="font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12.0pt; line-height:1.3; color:#1F497D"><div>This is extremely helpful. I only discovered virt-builder while debugging the issue with ipv6 I reported a few days ago. Great little tool!<br><br>Thank you!<br></div><div><br></div><div id="signature-x" style="-webkit-user-select:none; font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size:12.0pt; color:#1F497D" class = "signature_editor"><br></div></div><div class="quoted_output_body"><div id="quoted_header" class="quoted_header_editor" style="clear:both;"><hr style="border:none; height:1px; color:#E1E1E1; background-color:#E1E1E1;"/><div style="border:none; padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>From:</b> "Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@redhat.com><br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 3, 2019 12:29 PM<br><b>To:</b> Jonathan Wright<br><b>Cc:</b> libguestfs@redhat.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Libguestfs] cloud-init in virt-builder images<br></span></div></div><br type='attribution'><div id="quoted_body" class="quoted_body_editor"><p dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 09:34:03AM -0500, Jonathan Wright wrote: <br> > I've noticed that none of the images from virt-builder have <br> > cloud-init in them by default. The documentation reads to me as if <br> > the OS vendor's official cloud images are the ones used as the <br> > sources for the generated images but I'm assuming this is wrong. <br> <br> The problem with cloud-init is that it interrupts normal boot if <br> you're not booting the images in the cloud. However you can usually <br> add cloud-init by doing: <br> <br> virt-builder --install cloud-init os-version <br> <br> > I know for a fact CentOS's cloud images from <br> > https://cloud.centos.org/centos/7/images/ and Ubuntu's from <br> > https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/bionic/ have cloud-init installed <br> > and enabled already. <br> > <br> > Where are the images sourced from if not these official images? <br> <br> The ones we supply are built using this script: <br> <br> https://github.com/libguestfs/libguestfs/blob/master/builder/templates/make-template.ml <br> <br> The ones from SUSE are built using their build system. We'd like <br> other distros to build there own images for us, but no others do so <br> far. <br> <br> > I understand I can install cloud-init with virt-builder but I'm <br> > trying to figure out what OS-distributed images are in use so I may <br> > determine what else is different from expectations. <br> <br> You can set up your own virt-builder repos, and populate them with <br> images from wherever you like, and if you want also disable the <br> official virt-builder repo. This will give you complete control over <br> what images get built. Have a look at the files in <br> /etc/virt-builder/repos.d, and the man page. <br> <br> Rich. <br> <br> -- <br> Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones <br> Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com <br> libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, <br> bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org <br> </p> </div></div></div></body></html>