[virt-tools-list] Adding support for cloud-init in virt-manager

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/19/2017 07:59 AM, Delemotte Barthelemy wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> What do you think about allowing users to send cloud-init customization script
> directly from virt-manager ? (for instance open-stack's GUI horizon includes
> this feature)
> Here a blog article showing how to do with the CLI:
> http://blog.oddbit.com/2015/03/10/booting-cloud-images-with-libvirt/
> Would it be difficult to implement in virt-manger ?
> 
> I think pre-installed images are useful, but can't figure out how to use them
> efficiently with virt-manager.
> 
> Any suggestions ?
> 

I agree it would be useful, we've had an upstream bug to that effect:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981693

At least providing sane cloud-init defaults if we detect we are importing a
cloud image. Never really looked deeper into it though

- Cole