I've been working on getting Windows deployments (2022 in particular) to customize with Cloudbase-init.
So far I have it:
- Updating the hostname
- Updating the administrator account's password
- Running a command
- And configuring the NIC with a static IP when supplied with the MAC address.
If I don't supply the MAC in the network config, then cloudbase-init throws a bunch of errors in the log looking for the address and does not set the static IP. It doesn't make sense as their doc states that the field is optional. But seems to be necessary to find the NIC.
So to make it work, I need to specify a MAC address in XO when creating the VM. And then paste that into the network config yaml.
So is there a template variable for MAC like there is for {name} and {index} ? And if not... can we get one?
The working network config:
network:
version: 1
config:
- type: physical
name: eth0
mac_address: "56:a7:01:38:75:3f"
subnets:
- type: static
address: 192.168.1.3/24
gateway: 192.168.1.1
dns_nameservers:
- 192.168.1.2
dns_search:
- company.name
Or am I just doing it wrong?
Thanks!
jonathan