From: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
To: pve-devel@lists.proxmox.com
Subject: [pve-devel] [PATCH docs] cloud init: add warning to not install cloud-init on the host
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:32:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220922083240.26776-1-f.ebner@proxmox.com> (raw)
From time to time, users install the cloud-init package on the host
by accident [0]. Since the other commands are intended to be run on
the host, add a warning about the one command that shouldn't.
Patch suggested by @Neobin on the community forum [1].
[0] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/115530/post-499610
[1] https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/115530/post-499624
Signed-off-by: Fiona Ebner <f.ebner@proxmox.com>
---
qm-cloud-init.adoc | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/qm-cloud-init.adoc b/qm-cloud-init.adoc
index 1cebf14..8fb69a0 100644
--- a/qm-cloud-init.adoc
+++ b/qm-cloud-init.adoc
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ prepare. On Debian/Ubuntu based systems this is as simple as:
apt-get install cloud-init
----
+WARNING: This command is *not* intended to be executed on the {pve} host, but
+only inside the VM.
+
Already many distributions provide ready-to-use Cloud-Init images (provided
as `.qcow2` files), so alternatively you can simply download and
import such images. For the following example, we will use the cloud
--
2.30.2
next reply other threads:[~2022-09-22 8:32 UTC|newest]
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2022-09-22 8:32 Fiona Ebner [this message]
2022-09-26 9:16 ` [pve-devel] applied: " Thomas Lamprecht
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