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| author | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2021-03-14 09:23:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> | 2021-03-14 09:23:11 +0200 |
| commit | 7c0a34c07d58721ebe3f087f6b716797b96fafa2 (patch) | |
| tree | 54ec1b20aa13d3c4d90cc97757b667ab7be032d2 | |
| parent | e0b2904ef83b5a082f3bae1756bc7633a659c8fc (diff) | |
| download | vmadm-7c0a34c07d58721ebe3f087f6b716797b96fafa2.tar.gz | |
doc: explain about base images
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@@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ $ vmadm help $ vmadm --help ~~~ +A base image is an image with some operating system already installed. +It should use [cloud-init][] on first boot to configure hostname and +SSH keys, or at least not mind that there is an extra ISO disk with +cloud-init configuration attached to the VM. It should open an SSH +port when it has booted. Other than that, vmadm doesn't care what it +is. For Debian, the pre-made OpenStack cloud-image at +<https://cloud.debian.org/> works well. You need to download the base +image yourself, vmadm doesn't do that for you. + ## Configuration The default configuration file is `vmadm/config.yaml` under the XDG |