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--- k8s:linux_vm:set_up_flatcar-linux [2023/10/20 22:28] – admin
+++ k8s:linux_vm:set_up_flatcar-linux [2023/11/14 22:43] (current) – admin
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 Upload a version of flatcar_production_vmware_ova_image.vmdk to one of the VM hosts. Instead of [current](https://stable.release.flatcar-linux.net/amd64-usr/current/) it might be better to upload
-a [previous stable release](https://stable.release.flatcar-linux.net/amd64-usr/) and check that updating works. For example [3033.2.0](https://stable.release.flatcar-linux.net/amd64-usr/3033.2.0/)
+a [previous stable release](https://stable.release.flatcar-linux.net/amd64-usr/) and check that updating works. For example [3510.2.8](https://stable.release.flatcar-linux.net/amd64-usr/3510.2.8/)
 Remove any disks. Add the `flatcar_production_vmware_ova_image.vmdk` as the first disk (system, sda) and add a second thin provisionen 230 GB disk (container ephemeral, sdb).
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   files:
     - path: /etc/hostname
-      filesystem: root
       mode: 0644
       contents:
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           Address=10.6.16.xx/24
     - path: /etc/flatcar/update.conf
-      content:
+      contents:
         inline: |
           REBOOT_STRATEGY="reboot"
           LOCKSMITHD_REBOOT_WINDOW_START="Thu 04:00"
           LOCKSMITHD_REBOOT_WINDOW_LENGTH="1h"
+      overwrite: true
 systemd:
   units:
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 qemu-img create -f qcow2 -F qcow2 -b flatcar_production_qemu_image.img flatcar-linux1.qcow2
 chown libvirt-qemu:kvm flatcar_production_qemu_image.img flatcar-linux1.qcow2
+```
+Create the configuration (use the YAML from above)
+```bash
+cat acdh-clusterx.yaml | podman run --rm -i quay.io/coreos/butane:latest > /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/flatcar-linuxX-provision-ign_VARS.fd
+sudo chown libvirt-qemu:kvm /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/flatcar-linuxX-provision-ign_VARS.fd
+```
+Create the virutal machine, 2 disks, the qcow2 and a rancher partition of about 20GB
+At the end add the following XML
+```xml
+  <qemu:commandline xmlns:qemu='http://libvirt.org/schemas/domain/qemu/1.0'>
+    <qemu:arg value='-fw_cfg'/>
+    <qemu:arg value='name=opt/org.flatcar-linux/config,file=/var/lib/libvirt/qemu/nvram/flatcar-linuxX-provision-ign_VARS.fd'/>
+  </qemu:commandline>
 ```