Add applehv provisioning documentation #711
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@cfergeau PTAL |
| When FCOS is completed booting, you will see the IP address of the VM displayed in the GUI window. Vfkit will lease an address in the 192.168.64/0/24 network. At this point, you can either choose to login or SSH to the VM. Unlike some other virtualization providers, you can SSH to the virtual machine from the host. | ||
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I haven't looked at the doc explaining how to geneate the ignition file, but does the ssh key need to be explicitly specified here?
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no it doesnt assuming you use a key in a place you know the system will look. in my case, i used an existing key in ~/.ssh
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Looks good so far.
I think we need to add this to the index in modules/ROOT/nav.adoc
I know @ravanelli is going to test this out too and provide feedback.
| --bootloader efi,variable-store=efi-variable-store,create \ | ||
| --device virtio-blk,path=${IMAGE} \ | ||
| --device virtio-net,nat \ | ||
| --ignition ${IGNITION_CONFIG} \ |
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interesting that vfkit supports an --ignition arg. neat.
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| Note: The AppleHV hypervisor does not allow you to see early boot and kernel messages. While you will see a grub boot menu, you will not see anything until later in the boot. |
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Suggestion -> GRUB
It's odd to me that a user can see GRUB but no kernel messages. That would indicate to me that it's not technically impossible, just that we haven't found the right settings?
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My understanding is that it is not exposed by Apple. Is this correct @cfergeau ?
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but you would think if GRUB can output to a console (either VGA or serial) the kernel could too.. but I certainly don't know this platform at all and will trust the experts
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the kernel messages are not there either @dustymabe even in the vga console
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I've filed crc-org/vfkit#270 to document this properly on vfkit's end, as the behaviour varies a lot depending on how you start the VM.
Now that vfkit makes it easy to inject ignition files while booting FCOS, we can add some simple documentation for provisioning. This one is a hybrid between the hyperv and qemu provisioning documents. Signed-off-by: Brent Baude <[email protected]>
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ok, incorporated review comments thus far. |
Now that vfkit makes it easy to inject ignition files while booting FCOS, we can add some simple documentation for provisioning. This one is a hybrid between the hyperv and qemu provisioning documents.