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The first step is to prepare your VM. Basically you can use any VM.
-Simply install the Cloud-Init packages inside the VM that you want to
+Simply install the Cloud-Init packages *inside the VM* that you want to
prepare. On Debian/Ubuntu based systems this is as simple as:
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# download the image
wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/bionic/current/bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
-# create a new VM
-qm create 9000 --memory 2048 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0
+# create a new VM with VirtIO SCSI controller
+qm create 9000 --memory 2048 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0 --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci
-# import the downloaded disk to local-lvm storage
-qm importdisk 9000 bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img local-lvm
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-# finally attach the new disk to the VM as scsi drive
-qm set 9000 --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci --scsi0 local-lvm:vm-9000-disk-1
+# import the downloaded disk to the local-lvm storage, attaching it as a SCSI drive
+qm set 9000 --scsi0 local-lvm:0,import-from=/path/to/bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img
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NOTE: Ubuntu Cloud-Init images require the `virtio-scsi-pci`