Oh, I see now! Sorry, I had to wake up a bit, it's still early in my slice of the globe. Thanks Till for clarifying!
You want to create a new zone and then run something like https://man.openbsd.org/autoinstall.8 to set up a new OpenBSD host? This does sound cool, I definitely want to know what you land on. I wonder if there is a way to provide DHCP metadata to zones, and maybe serve the OpenBSD install.conf file from a web server in the global zone? On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 8:25 AM Till Wegmueller <toaster...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Kent > > Unfortunately we do not provide a metadata source (cloud-init) for VM > guests as of this writing, so you have to use the guest OS's native > tooling for unattended installations or IPXE network booting. In bHyve > the zones console is plumbed to the guests serial console so if your > guest is configured to use ttyS0 as console you can login without any > SSH or network on the guest. > > Hope this helps finding a solution > -Till > > On 22.03.21 23:52, Kent Watsen wrote: > > > > How are folks automating zone creation? > > > > Searching DuckDuckGo/Google, not much is found regarding how a script > > could use `zlogin` for per-zone "install" and/or "post-install" steps. > > I was hoping that Ansible or even `expect` might support `zlogin` > > but, apparently, only if using non-interactive mode? > > > > Ansible could SSH to the zone as a post-install step, but the install > > itself would still be manual. I could install one zone and then > > snapshot/clone it for the others, letting each initially use some > > specific temporary IP address just long enough for Ansible to log in the > > reset it. > > > > FWIW, I use native zones for Intranet-facing services and Bhyve/OpenBSD > > zones for Internet-facing services. Most of my zones are > > Internet-facing, so my question primarily regards "bhyve" branded zones. > > > > Thanks, > > Kent > > > > > > > > *illumos <https://illumos.topicbox.com/latest>* / illumos-discuss / see > > discussions <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss> + > participants > > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/members> + delivery > options > > <https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription> Permalink > > < > https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8d010ae1c0b972a7-M1cf2d300cbd079b586c98247> > ------------------------------------------ illumos: illumos-discuss Permalink: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/T8d010ae1c0b972a7-Mbf37ea24305938c822856e93 Delivery options: https://illumos.topicbox.com/groups/discuss/subscription
