Hi, We confirmed that the IP=password line is in the router at the time of the machine starting up.
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:37 AM, Andrija Panic <[email protected]> wrote: > "We're building a Windows 2012 template on KVM. It works fine except that > it > only sets the password for the VM after rebooting it once." > > we observed this behaviour with 4.3.1/2 because when you check inside VR, > there is file /var/cache/cloud/passwords that should indicate that the > IP=password line is not present during VM boot (or at least that is the > behaviour we saw). > Meaning VR is late with password provisioning inside this file so VM doesnt > get to fetch it during first time boot... > > But if you reboot the instance, in the meantime the line with IP=password > is provisioned, so simpe reboot works fine. > > If instead reboot, you shutodnw VM, reset pass again, you will not be able > to fetch it again - so reseting pass is simly not the solution. > > Simple VM reboot will fetch pass... > > > On 2 June 2015 at 12:21, Vadim Kimlaychuk <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Jeff, > > > > Try to reset password for existing VM. Will it take 2 reboots? > > There is may be a problem with Cloud Instance Manager. It is > quite > > old - as I have checked at > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/cloudstack/files/Password%20Management%20Scripts/ > > it is almost 4 years old. > > > > Vadim. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jeff Hair [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 1:15 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Cloud Instance Manager only sets password after reboot on > > Windows 2012 R2 > > > > Hi, > > > > This is specifically for when the VM first starts up. Don't think it is > > specifically a CloudStack problem, it's more of a question about how to > > properly configure the Cloud Instance Manager. Basically when the machine > > first starts up, it tries to auto-login (despite no registry setting for > > that), but fails due to invalid password. The password to log in is the > > default password from when I created the template. Cloud Instance Manager > > has the garbled output I described in the first post. If I reboot the > > machine, it starts up and Cloud Instance Manager works fine, and thus I > can > > log in with the CloudStack-set password. > > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Vadim Kimlaychuk < > > [email protected] > > > wrote: > > > > > Hello Jeff, > > > > > > Actually to reset password you need to power-off VM first. > > > Then after start-up it picks up new password from VR. > > > If you create VM from password-enabled template then > > > you should get it immediately upon VM start-up. > > > > > > Whether Windows have to log-in automatically or not -- depends > > > on windows OS settings. This issue seems does not belong to Cloudstack > > > or KVM hypervisor. Check your template OS. > > > > > > I don't see any problems related to CS here. > > > > > > Vadim. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Jeff Hair [mailto:[email protected]] > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 12:57 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Cloud Instance Manager only sets password after reboot on > > > Windows > > > 2012 R2 > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > We're building a Windows 2012 template on KVM. It works fine except > > > that it only sets the password for the VM after rebooting it once. > > > When the machine first starts up, there is garbled output in the Cloud > > > Instance Manager logs. For example "Added DHCP server: i#x" > > > > > > After rebooting the machine, Cloud Instance Manager works and the > > > password is set. > > > > > > Also on the first boot it is trying to auto-login but failing with the > > > wrong password, if that helps. > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jeff > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > *Jeff Hair* > > Core Systems Developer > > > > Tel: (+354) 415 0200 > > [email protected] > > www.greenqloud.com > > > > > > -- > > Andrija Panić > -- *Jeff Hair* Core Systems Developer Tel: (+354) 415 0200 [email protected] www.greenqloud.com
