Re: Correct images to use for baremetal
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
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