From 88cb121433308247bc3e8a23eef3ab8d8588a79e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Fiona Ebner Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2022 10:32:40 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] cloud init: add warning to not install cloud-init on the host 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 --- 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 -- 2.39.2