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    Refactor VM image setup; support extra images; add user import script. · 3b3a8d50
    David Johnson authored
    This cleanly refactors everything we do to VM images (asserting the
    random passwd, disabling root passwd, changing sshd config, etc).  This
    allows us to support adding extra images based on URL/name user provides
    us in params, and to allow them to call our script after profile
    instantiation to add an image.  It's fairly comprehensive and it
    certainly works for the common cloud images from various linux vendors.
    It also rolls multi-nic support into each image.  We do this via
    boot-time udev scripts and dhcp hooks that ensure we don't add routes
    for interfaces other than eth0 (this ensures that the default gateway is
    always attached to eth0).  The old, hacky, sometimes-broken multi-nic
    support is gone, as is the special image.  I have no idea why cloud
    images don't just include this feature by default... it's not hard at
    We support Ubuntu and Fedora/Centos.  We support basically the image
    formats that qemu-nbd supports (i.e., qcow, vmware, vdi, raw), and gz or
    xz compression.  That seems to cover the core spectrum.
    On aarch64, we yank the kernel and initrd out of the image's /boot and
    create an AMI/AKI/ARI image tuple, instead of uploading the raw disk
    image.  I have never figured out how to boot a raw Ubuntu cloud image on
    KVM/aarch64, and the HP guys never got back to me.  So this is the only
    way I know (well, there's UEFI, and there's a UEFI aarch64 BIOS, so the
    UEFI cloud images might work... but life is way too short for all that
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