[virt-tools-list] virt-install and cloud-init, feedback wanted

[Dusty Mabe]

On 11/21/19 6:22 PM, Cole Robinson wrote:
> On 11/21/19 10:49 AM, Ryan Harper wrote:
>>
>> The feature has been around since 2017, cloud-init 17.1 and newer
>> support this feature.
>>
> 
> Interesting. I tested with this ubuntu image:
> https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/eoan/current/eoan-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
> 
> And indeed, seems like it drops quite quickly to a login prompt when no
> cloudinit data is passed in. And --cloud-init seems to work as expected.
> 
> So I wonder, why does Fedora 31 images still seem to hang, waiting for
> network timeout? Is this something that needs to be explicitly enabled
> in the disk image cloud.cfg?

We have an old version of cloud-init in Fedora. The package was recently orphaned
by the maintainer who no longer had time to maintain it and I picked it up. Me and
a few other people are going to rebase it on latest upstream master, but that work
didn't make it into F31.

Dusty