Re: Do generic cloud images not use the local cloud-init data source?

[Nick Lockheart <lists@ageofdream.com>]

On Thu, 2024-11-07 at 09:06 -0500, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 09:35:52PM -0500, Nick Lockheart wrote:
> > Do generic cloud images not use the local cloud-init data source?
> 
> They don't disable any data sources.
> 
> > I'm having an issue with the official generic cloud images
> > available
> > from Debian, for example, `debian-12-genericcloud-amd64-daily-
> > 20241104-
> > 1921.qcow2`.
> 
> Have you tried the generic images, rather than genericcloud?  The
> latter
> disables a bunch of drivers in order to reduce the on-disk footprint,
> which is probably your issue.  The images are otherwise the same.
> 
> noah
> 

Is the virtual CD-ROM drive one of the missing drivers? I think that's
how virt-install passes the cloud-init data- as a mounted CDROM disk.