On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Wido den Hollander <w...@widodh.nl> wrote: > > > On 08/14/2013 02:02 PM, Marty Sweet wrote: >> >> Hi guys, >> >> I was planning on making some documentation which explains how to prepare >> a >> Linux VM for template creation (there is a good doc about Windows), what >> do >> you think? My only current issue is how to pick up a hostname from DHCP, >> while I have worked out how to do it, I would be intrested to see how the >> system vms achieve it and use those scripts rather than reinventing the >> wheel. >> > > Don't forget to make sure acpid is installed, otherwise the VM won't respond > to a graceful shutdown. > > And don't forget the password reset script which should be present to allow > password changes. > > Wido >
Modern cloud-init supports CloudStack - might be appropriate to document configuring that rather than password/ssh script for modern distros. --David
