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Ask HN: Cloud-Localds Alternative for macOS?
I'm using qemu to build Ubuntu server VMs on my mac, and I want to use cloud-init to configure the VM. Everything works fine but there is one command I cannot run on my mac:
cloud-localds -v --network-config=network.cfg ubuntu.img cloud_init.cfg
I haven't found anything similar to cloud-localds available on Mac. So, it seems that in order to boot my Ubuntu VM I first need to boot another VM to run cloud-localds... a bit frustrating. Do you know how can I achieve the same as the command line above but in MacOS?
- ComradePhil 5y agoYou can install Docker Desktop and then try running it via Docker. To do so, # Run the following once mkdir cloud-image-utils cd cloud-image-utils echo FROM ubuntu > Dockerfile echo RUN apt update >> Dockerfile echo RUN DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends cloud-image-utils >> Dockerfile docker build -t cloud-image-utils . # Now, you will be able to run cloud-localds by running the following docker run -v $(pwd):/mnt cloud-image-utils cloud-localds -v --network-config=/mnt/network.cfg /mnt/ubuntu.img /mnt/cloud_init.cfg You can create an alias for the command above to make it easier to use.
- ipveesix 5y agocloud-localds also works on MacOS with a little patch. After all, it's a bash script. brew install cdrtools wget -O cloud-localds https://github.com/canonical/cloud-utils/raw/main/bin/cloud-localds sed -i 's/genisoimage/mkisofs/g' cloud-localds chmod +x cloud-localds