David, I can't speak to the GUI userdata, as I've never used it from the GUI. Have you tried using CloudMonkey?
Here's some info related to userdata: http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-administration/en/latest/virtual_machines.html#user-data-and-meta-data - Si ________________________________________ From: Yacubovich, David <dyacubov...@collegeboard.org> Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 12:30 PM To: users@cloudstack.apache.org Subject: User data is not base64 encoded Hello All, I am trying to test the use of userdata on CS 4.6. I am creating new instance from the UI and I paste the base64 encoded string into the userdata box. But I get this error every time. I can't find any examples of how to use userdata online. Can someone please give me an example of how this should work? Here is m example: # echo "env: poclab container: tomcat" | base64 ZW52OiBwb2NsYWIKY29udGFpbmVyOiB0b21jYXQK And I paste this string into userdata box. Thanks, David