[SOLVED] Cloud-init snippet user data

[Zombie]

Question to see if this will work or if works only one way.

Right now if I want to use the user data in in snippets I set it with qm set 900 --cicustom "user=proxmoxnfs-iso:snippets/user.yaml" after I clone a template and it works fine.

BUT

Want I have been trying to do and it does not seem to work or I am doing it wrong, so maybe some insight if anyone has any. What I want to happen is for the snippets to work on a new cloud image I download. What I mean is that I like to download daily cloud images of ubuntu and and then set it up from the proxmox cloud support page https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cloud-Init_Support.

Now it works fine and all that, but now I am adding
qm set 900 --cicustom "user=proxmoxnfs-iso:snippets/user.yaml"
to the commands to try and get my userdata in there, but does not appear to work when you create the VM.

So I guess is it only possible to use the user config file --cicustom on a clone and not on a new VM being created from a cloud image?

Thanks for any insight.

Frank

 

[Zombie]

UPDATE (SOLVED)

So if you have snippets enabled for whatever storage it will work when you clone a template and then qm set --cicustom "user=STORAGENAME:snippets/user.yaml" it works.

But it doesn't work if you are just run through the cloud-init creation of a cloud image. Then instead of Datacenter -> Storage -> editing one of my storage's to allow snippets I decided to just add a directory under Datacenter -> Storage -> and only allowed snippets. It still is on my NFS share, but now works for either a clone or just creating a VM off of a cloud image from the cloud-init FAQ.

I just hated having to set vm's to templates then clone them to use custom snippets, but this appears to be a workaround.