On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 07:18:08PM -0500, Ryan Belgrave wrote: > What are the correct images to use for a baremetal cloud? The first ones I > tried were the Openstack ones but those don't seem to have any drivers for > physical machines. I couldn't get USB keyboards to work physically or over > the server's IPMI kvm. It also seemed that network devices weren't working > either. I assumed this image would work since what I am doing is very > similar to Openstack Ironic. I'm guessing ironic isn't supported in the > openstack image?
Which specific openstack image did you try? If it includes the 'cloud' kernel variant, then the lack of hardware drivers is expected. > I also tried the generic image. This one seems to be the most promising as > usb and network both worked, however any network configuration done by > cloud-init was ignored. The machine always requested an IP from dhcp > instead of using the static configuration placed down by cloud-init. > I am using the config drive cloud-init datasource. The same exact setup > works for Centos 7, Fedora 32, Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 so I don't believe > it is a configuration issue on my end. > Any pointers would be appreciated. The 'generic' images, such as https://cloud.debian.org/images/cloud/buster/20200511-260/debian-10-generic-amd64-20200511-260.qcow2 should work. Can you share the relevant portion of the cloud-config and cloud-init logs? (/var/log/cloud-init.log and /var/log/cloud-init-output.log) noah
