Hi Rishi, The systemvm template is not used for user vms. As you have noticed, the network interfaces are configured by cloudstack , dhcp does not work. You can test with the built-in Centos 5 templates. You can also try the templates on http://dl.openvm.eu/cloudstack/ (provided by NuxRo)
-Wei On Sun, Apr 28, 2024 at 7:30 PM Rishi Misra <rishi.investig...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi there, > > I am trying to understand why a VM instance created by Cloudstack does not > get an IP address in "Basic network" configuration. Interestingly, unter > the "instances" page UI shows an IP assigned to my VM instance. > Furthermore, the router VM adds an entry for my VM/IP in its "/etc/hosts" > entry. > > However, when I try to ping/access the VM it does not have any IP > associated with it. It almost looks like it never picked up an IP from the > DHCP server running on the router. > > After investigating a bit I found that new VM instances use default.sh > <https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/blob/main/systemvm/debian/opt/cloud/bin/setup/default.sh> > as part of initialization which does not define any interfaces which in > turn causes this issue. I can get around it by manually adding an entry in > the "/etc/networking/interface" file which works well, however the > interface is reset once the machine is rebooted (as part of cloud init). > > What could be going on here? I am using the same qcow2 image for SystemVM > and User template. > > Thanks.
