Re: [D] How to create OVA Templates for VMware [cloudstack]

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GitHub user sandabot closed a discussion: How to create OVA Templates for VMware

Since there's so little available resources for .ova cloud images that should be compatible with cloudstack, I tried creating my own.

I booted an Ubuntu iso on vmware, installed cloud-config, prepared everything, shut down the VM, exported the OVF package, converted the bundle to a single OVA file with ovftool then registered the template into cloudstack.

When booting, I get kernel panic everytime, so I'm assuming it's just some unconfigured disk. 

My question is: what's the proper way to create Cloudstack & VMware compatible OVA templates, with cloud-config, that will pull their configuration from cloudstack?

I've only seen Ubuntu having an official .ova cloud template, but mounting it won't get configured, I'm assuming it doesn't have cloud-config or is just not compatible with cloudstack since it won't configure the network, or add a ssh key, or pull user data. I mean this one https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/noble/current/noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.ova . And I can't check since there's no way to authenticate into this template without password configuration or ssh key.

I know that downloading premade templates from the internet is bad practice, but where can I get some compatible .OVA templates for VMware? 

GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/discussions/12134

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