Re: F37 proposal: Supplement of Server distributables by a KVM VM disk image (Self-Contained Change proposal)

[Neal Gompa]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 3:28 AM Florian Weimer  wrote:
> Ben Cotton:
> > The creation of the VM disk image, uses the same kickstart files and
> > installation groups as the standard full installation, except of
> > course for the hardware-specific items. The image is optimized for
> > KVM.
> >
> > That way, the VM resembles a default server installation as closely as
> > possible.
>
> Will the image still attempt to download instance metadata over the
> network (via cloud-init or some other mechanism), or is this excluded?
>
> I think the cloud-init part is the most problematic (even dangerous)
> aspect of using the existing cloud images under KVM.

cloud-init doesn't *have* to do that. It generally doesn't if it
doesn't recognize the hypervisor platform.