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

Cedric Bosdonnat cbosdonnat at suse.com
Wed Jul 19 12:48:50 UTC 2017


On Wed, 2017-07-19 at 11:59 +0000, 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-libvir
> t/
> 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 ?

Sounds like a cool feature to me. The iso image creation sounds hacky: there surely is
a cleaner way to feed the config to cloud-init.

Something that could be interesting too is to allow creating a guest out of a virt-builder
template. Note that you can already clone an existing VM with virt-manager.

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Cedric




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