@newknowledge Thanks, I'll try it out later.

@olivierlambert I see the drive attached to the new VM but it is not mounted. After mounting, I can see the contents of cloud-init config and everything looks ok unless I missed something:

drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 16384 Jan  1  1970 ./
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root  4096 May 22 18:58 ../
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root    50 May 22 18:54 meta-data*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   104 May 22 18:54 network-config*
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  2048 May 22 18:54 openstack/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root   469 May 22 18:54 user-data*
root@cloudbase:/mnt# cat user-data
#cloud-config
hostname: testingtheothertime0
timezone: America/New_York
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true
packages:
  - htop
  - tree
  - vim
  - ffmpeg
write_files:
  - content: |
    network:
      ethernets:
        eth0:
          addresses:
            - 192.168.0.22/24
      gateway4: 192.168.0.1
      nameservers:
        addresses:
          - 192.168.0.1
    version: 2
    path: /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml
runcmd:
  - [ netplan, apply ]
root@cloudbase:/mnt# cat network-config
#network:
#  version: 1
#  config:
#  - type: physical
#    name: eth0
#    subnets:
#      - type: dhcproot@cloudbase:/mnt#
root@cloudbase:/mnt# cat meta-data
instance-id: 3824858a-0679-2863-5416-e03640479e8c
root@cloudbase:/mnt#

From the cloud config, the packages were not installed. Also, tried the do the networking in different ways but nothing worked.

@MrMike nope, not working.

• Created VM
• Installed guest-tools
• Installed cloud init, cloud-initramfs-growroot
• Updated /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg
• Updated /usr/lib/cloud-init/ds-identify with lines given above
• Created template
• Created new vm from template using cloud init config on XO
• New VM has nothing from the cloud init config...

I could see how you could tweak the /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg with the users, etc. But cloud.cfg should have minimal settings on it. All the settings and configuration should come from the cloud init config in XO.

@MrMike Great, thanks. I'll try this out.

@MrMike could you please post the changes to ds-identity file? Also, I don't see the /usr/lib/cloud-init/ds-identify.ORIGINAL file. Is this something that gets created after the new VM is created?

@geek-baba oh ok, so are you bypassing cloud init altogether? How do you handle the network config? I was hoping to at least setup network + ssh key and then I could mange with Ansible after that.

Initially tried using Terraform with XO, but this cloud init issue may be the problem why I was having an issue getting them to work together.

@geek-baba Thanks, do you happen to have some steps on the additional changes you made to the VM before converting in to the template?

@olivierlambert just tried to go through the process again from what the example gave. Included the extra lines you mentioned above for the datasource. But it is still not seeing any of the custom cloud init settings that I configured.

Is the template VM somehow badly configured? Is there anything on here that is outdated: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/centos-cloud-template-for-xenserver/

I'll continue debugging this issue but would be nice to have a guide on how to make cloud init work. Seems like there is something either missing or not working on the current guide (maybe XO bug?).

Looking at the docs again, seems like the cloud-init config didn't really work:

Hostname is set to: cloudtest

Result (host name is not correct )

@olivierlambert Seems like the cloud init config that gets run is the one under:

/var/lib/cloud/seed/nocloud-net/user-data

Have checked all the different logs and there is nothing about the custom cloud-init config that I selected during VM creation using XenOrchestra.

@olivierlambert I tried it with Ubuntu 18.04 and installed cloud init when creating the template.

@olivierlambert Created a VM template and installed cloud init as the link you sent suggested. But the cloud init file is not being read Xen Orchestra or none of the cloud init settings are actually being set on the new VM.

Is there anything that I need to do on the template VM that is not there in the guide? I followed this link for creating the template: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/centos-cloud-template-for-xenserver/

When I create a new vm, and select a custom cloud init config. It doesn't do anything on the new vm. Here is my custom cloud-init config:

#cloud-config
timezone: America/New_York
hostname: testing
packages:
  - htop
  - tree
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true

The hostname is the same as the template hostname.

Created a cloud config under settings > cloud configs.

When creating a new VM, I'm unable to select the specific cloud config. Opened the advanced settings, and still no choice for selecting a cloud config.

When creating the VM:

Where exactly can I select the cloud config when creating a new VM?

@julien-f Yes, I had the xcp-ng host ip instead of XO ip. After changing that, getting different error now:

Error: jsonrpc2: code -32000 message: unknown error from the peer

  on main.tf line 53, in resource "xenorchestra_vm" "base":
  53: resource "xenorchestra_vm" "base" {

Here is what my tf file looks like:

provider "xenorchestra" {
  url = "ws://XO_IP_HERE"
  username = "USERNAME"
  password = "PASSWORD"
}

data "xenorchestra_template" "template" {
  name_label = "Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04"
}

data "xenorchestra_pif" "pif" {
  device = "eth0"
  vlan = -1
}

resource "xenorchestra_cloud_config" "base" {
  name = "cloudconfig"
  template = <<EOF
#cloud-init
tiemzone: America/New_York
hostname: terraformtest
package_update: true
package_upgrade: true
users:
  - name: test
    gecos: Test User
    groups: sudo
    passwd: test
    sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL']

network:
  version: 2
  ethernets:
    eno1:
      dhcp4: no
      addresses: [192.168.0.40/24]
      gateway4: 192.168.0.1
      nameservers:
         addresses: [192.168.0.1]

runcmd:
 - [ ls, -l, / ]
 - [ sh, -xc, "echo $(date) ': hello world!'" ]
 - [ sh, -c, echo "=========hello world'=========" ]
 - ls -l /root
EOF
}

resource "xenorchestra_vm" "base" {
    memory_max = 1073733632
    cpus  = 2
    cloud_config = "${xenorchestra_cloud_config.base.template}"
    name_label = "TerraformVM"
    name_description = "Created by Terraform Script"
    template = "${data.xenorchestra_template.template.id}"
    network {
	    network_id = "${data.xenorchestra_pif.pif.network}"
    }

    disk {
      sr_id = "388ccc18-9b21-22cc-dfa9-db4c8c3a4959"
      name_label = "Terraform_disk_imavo"
      size = 32212254720
    }
}

Do you happen to see what I'm doing wrong here? Thanks

I'm starting to use Terraform to provision new vms and followed the configuration from the xenorchestra provider for Terraform:
https://terra-farm.github.io/provider-xenorchestra/index.html
but running into following issue:

Error: websocket: bad handshake

  on main.tf line 7, in data "xenorchestra_template" "template":
   7: data "xenorchestra_template" "template" {

Is there anything I need to enable on XenOrchestra so the websocket connection works?