Earlier this year I posted a thread on creating an Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS Template for use in a lab. You can check that out here: https://enterpriseadmins.org/blog/virtualization/lab-updates-ubuntu-18-04-template/
In late April of this year (2020) Canonical released a new Ubuntu 20.04 LTS edition. I recently followed the same steps from my previous 18.04 template to build a new template — but with 2 additional changes.
Guest OS Customization Fails
The first issue I noticed was that customization specs were not properly applying, resulting in a deployed VM that had the following symptoms:
- No IP Address customization
- No Hostname customization
- Network Adapter disconnected
I found the following bug report that had a workaround related to a similar previous issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-tools/+bug/1793715. I also found a VMware KB article with more details related to 18.04 here: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/54986. While I didn’t encounter this issue with 18.04, the workaround resolved my issue with 20.04. Specifically, I performed one action — removing cloud-init. I did this by running a single command:
sudo apt purge cloud-init
Install package for ifconfig
While we are modifying packages for this template, there is one command that I was missing — ifconfig. While I know I can find the IP other ways (like with the command ip address
), I still like having ifconfig. We can include the package containing this command with another command:
sudo apt install net-tools
Conclusion
Removing one package and adding another are the only differences between my Ubuntu Server 20.04 template and the Ubuntu Server 18.04 template (previous post here).
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