Re: Do generic cloud images not use the local cloud-init data source?
On Thu, Nov 07, 2024 at 03:27:31PM +0000, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2024-11-07 10:22:09 -0500 (-0500), Nick Lockheart wrote:
> [...]
> > 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.
>
> Yes, this has come up before. OpenStack clouds, for example, need
> virtual CD-ROM access in order to pass cloud-init metadata via a
> "config drive," but since virtual CD-ROMs aren't used as a feature
> in AWS or Azure that driver isn't included in genericcloud images.
No, actually CD-ROM works fine, if you happen to use virtio to access
it. What not works is AHCI.
Bastian
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