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Bug 2014972

Summary:	[cloud-init][ESXi][RHEL8]The cloud-init can't detect the iso metadata file when the open-vm-tools installed
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	ldu <ldu>
Component:	cloud-init	Assignee:	Eduardo Otubo <eterrell>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	ldu <ldu>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	8.5	CC:	cavery, huzhao, jgreguske, pengpengs, ravindrakumar, ribarry, vmware-gos-qa, xiliang, yacao
Target Milestone:	rc	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
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Last Closed:	2021-10-25 08:17:53 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Description ldu 2021-10-18 06:59:27 UTC

Description of problem:
Install RHEL on ESXi host, then install cloud-init,if the open-vm-tools installed after reboot the cloud-init could not detect the iso metadata file, if uninstall the open-vm-tools, the cloud-init will be disabled

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL-8
cloud-init-21.1-7.el8.noarch

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install RHEL8 guest on ESXi host
2.Start the guest and install cloud-init
3.Attach a iso metadata file in the guest via CD/DVD
4.Reboot guest and check the guest whether configure follow the iso metadata file
5.Uninstall the open-vm-tools and reboot the guest
6.Check the guest whether configure follow the iso metadata file and the cloud-init service status


Actual results:
After step 4,  cloud-init doesn't configure the guest following the iso metadata file as it can't detect the iso file.
After step 6,  cloud-init is disabled and cloud-init doesn't configure the guest follow the iso metadata file


Expected results:
Cloud-init can configure the guest follow the iso metadata file with open-vm-tools installed

Additional info:

Comment 3 ldu 2021-10-25 08:17:53 UTC

After confirm with Yan Jin and Pengpeng, the ISO metadata file need special format, we can follow blow example to make iso:

https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/doc/sources/ovf/example/ovf-env.xml

retest with the iso metadata file, the cloud-init could detect the datasource and works well, so close this bug.