Indeed, all linuxes should have cloud-init installed, configured to use the cloudstack source of course.
There is work going on in Cloudbase-init to make it run with Cloudstack instances, as well (so we can ditch the Cloud.com password thingy). Lucian -- Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! Nux! www.nux.ro ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Mackey" <tmac...@gmail.com> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 14:44:25 > Subject: Re: Packer for XenServer VHDs > Thanks. Once I regain access to my hosts I'll work on getting that in. > I'm assuming this is general to all OSes, not just CentOS7. > > -tim > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 2:31 AM, Nux! <n...@li.nux.ro> wrote: > >> Hi Tim, >> >> I think cloud-init is a must. I am maintaining CentOS building at >> http://dl.openvm.eu using virt-install+kickstarts ( >> http://dl.openvm.eu/cloudstack/centos/ks/ ). >> >> HTH >> Lucian >> >> -- >> Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! >> >> Nux! >> www.nux.ro >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Tim Mackey" <tmac...@gmail.com> >> > To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org >> > Sent: Tuesday, 27 January, 2015 03:57:45 >> > Subject: Packer for XenServer VHDs >> >> > Everyone, >> > >> > I've been extending a XenServer builder some of the XenServer engineering >> > team have been working on to produce a VHD which would be suitable for >> > upload as a template. CentOS 7 is my guest OS type and have the >> XenServer >> > tools going in and guest password script running as a systemd service. >> > >> > From my perspective this is goodness, and I'll be showing at FOSDEM, but >> I >> > wanted to double check if there is more I should add in to make this as >> > usable as possible. If anyone has experience with CentOS 7 templates and >> > can share any gotchas, I can see if I can take care of them in the packer >> > provisioners. My plan is to also have samples for CentOS 6.5 and Ubuntu >> > 14.04, and those look more straight forward, but any gotchas someone >> wants >> > to point out will be welcome. >> > >> > Thanks >> > >> > -tim
