Proxmox VE Full Course: Class 6 - Creating Virtual Machine Templates

[@weirbm]

Hi again Jay, Apologies for all of the comments regarding my issue with cloud-init and SSH, but I have SOLVED the issue after troubleshooting, and watching your "Intro to Cloud-init" video - it was very helpful. As I'm sure other users may encounter the same error that I did while following along, I wanted to include the [simple] solution: Once all of the steps have been completed in the VM that is destined to become the template (but before you power it down!), ensure that you run "sudo cloud-init clean" - this will ensure that cloud-init knows that - the next time this machine boots, whether from this VM instance or a clone from it becoming a template - it will see that boot as the first boot, and apply the necessary changes to the SSH host keys. When I followed along with your tutorial verbatim for the third time, I simply issued the "sudo cloud-init clean" command before powering down and everything worked beautifully! :) Hopefully this comment helps other users out who are following along. If it doesn't, please feel free to remove it! I am now able to proceed to the next video on containers! Can't wait! Thanks again, Jay! All the best!

[@DeadTux]

I did the same thing, thanks for posting this

[@GotchaPine007]

Thanks a lot, that did the trick for me to. Without that it would not allow me to initiate a SSH session after the clone

[@wiesawpeche7273]

Thanks for this post - saved my day!

[@Trains-With-Shane]

Thanks Ben! Had the same problem on my first template-created test VM. I recreated the template (from the test VM that wouldn't let me SSH in) but this time ran the additional "sudo cloud-init clean" command right before shutting down. converted to template, cloned, tested, and all is well. SSH in just like it should.

[@weirbm]

Hi all, I'm very glad that this comment has helped resolve so many issues.

[@PersonalMusicChanel]

Attention for those following this tutorial: A newer video labeled "Bonus video 3 - Proxmox VE - How to build an Ubuntu 22.04 Template (Updated Method)" has been added to the course video list which is more up to date. With that said are already trying to go trough this tutorial below are the steps I had to add to make it work for me. If you've encountered issues getting SSH to function after following the steps in the video, try running the command 'sudo cloud-init clean.' This fix should be done around the 8-minute mark in the tutorial, before stoping the VM after the clean up. Fix was originally suggested by @weirdbm in the comments. Additionally, @ossamaboughaba7926 suggested using 'ssh-keygen -A' in one of the comments to regenerate the SSH key if you hadn't executed 'sudo cloud-init clean' before creating the template. Although I haven't personally tested it, this might resolve the issue. In case your VM starts without an assigned IP address, it might be expecting a static IP and needs to be set to acquire one via DHCP. Access the 'cloud init' configuration of your VM, edit the 'IP config' option, and enable DHCP for IP4. By implementing these updates, I managed to progress through the tutorial successfully till the end.

[@AlexB-op7kb]

THank you

[@ourkid2000]

Wow, thanks! Solved my issue and I learned something new, thanks for this

[@Tmacs-yp6vv]

thanks man

[@frankk1553]

Thank you, it was really helpful!

[@craftsmanshopswoodworking5197]

Hi Jay great tutorial congrats on your next season in life. Just so everyone knows they may have to run sudo dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server first in the Proxmox VNC terminal. This will rebuild the SSH keys. Thanks again keep up the good work.

[@telecomcraft]

Thanks that did it for me. I'm confused though, as I though cloud-init would take care of this.

[@ermmoore2161]

Thank you! I too thought cloud-init would rebuild them automatically in the VMs created from the template. I wasn't able to connect through PuTTY SSH until I ran the command you mention!

[@jimb599]

A million thanks!

[@JazzMac36251]

Months later, still helpful. Thank you!

[@crosssouth6553]

thank you for the tips!

[@barrymeehan3027]

Jay: I'm really enjoying the content for this class! I'll be rolling out a ProxMox deployment for a client later this week. PLEASE release the rest of the classes for this course ASAP!!! I can hardly wait to see what you have in store. Keep up the great work. Thanks!

[@amitrastogi1405]

Amazing tutorial series....helped me to work with Proxmox efficiently at my workplace!

[@wekiwa7055]

Watching each new Proxmox video repeatedly! Templates will help immensely!

[@elements88xyz]

Fantastic work as usual Jay, have come back to this later on and spun up a rocky9 instance with your guidance! :)

[@danbrown586]

Between this and your video on cloud-init, I'm a little confused and hoping you can clarify, perhaps in a future video. I completely understand wanting to replace the SSH host keys, and that's something that would need to be done in each clone of the template, so you'd want to have cloud-init do that. But it seems that most of what cloud-init would otherwise do *in a Proxmox environment* (or at least in this context--one where you're creating a VM, configuring it in some way, and then turning it into a template) could be done just as well (if not better) by making those configuration decisions in the VM itself before turning it into a template. Installing extra packages, setting up (or changing) a default user, adding a SSH public key for that user, configuring SSH to accept user certificates from a specified CA, setting time zone, etc., seem that they could all be handled at least as well directly in the VM. But I say that having never used cloud-init, so it's entirely possible (indeed, likely) that I'm missing something. Some discussion of when it makes more sense to use cloud-init, vs. when it makes more sense to just preconfigure the VM before creating the template, would be helpful.

[@magicmanj32]

Great Video, as a new linux user, you explain yourself very well, keep up the good work

[@LearnLinuxTV]

Thank you!

[@hidaya8195]

For those who may get the spinned off VMs are not assigned IPs, ensure you update IP Config while setting up Cloud-Init. I found out setting to DHCP makes it work out of the box.

[@LucSuryo]

Thanks!

[@IvanRosaT]

I can comfirm my imagination took me over to do all of this on the Desktop Gnome GUI, and works! This is just the Video I was looking for! I went trough like 5 Videos and they made reference of Cloud Init but it was super confusing and 10 mins of not going straing to the point, you defenately nailed! 💗

[@srihariravikumar5897]

Thanks Jay for this awesome course of Proxmox😊

[@LearnLinuxTV]

My pleasure!

[@junnanpan7409]

Hi thank you for your tutorial! I have a question. When we remove all the ssh host key files on the VM template, how can we create a ssh connection to the remote host after cloning the template without knowing the host key. Or did I miss something?

[@ovaisvaid4628]

Jay, thank you for the Proxmox course. I am following it and learning a lot. I have one issue when I created a webserver using template it breaks the ability to SSH into the server. But if I create a normal VM SSH works.

[@MatthewCrofut]

Good stuff Jay. I knew nothing about cloudinit before or how to wipe ssh info so each clone had its own.

[@Servicehans]

5:58 after running "sudo ln -s /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id". I get "failed to create symbolic link 'var/lib/dbus/machine-id': File exists. SOLUTION: add an 'f' to the variables like that 'sudo ln -sf /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id' . This will force the link to be created.

[@peterenis1363]

same, tried to delete but it says permission denied. seems like there is an additional machine-id, not a symbolic link

[@Servicehans]

@@peterenis1363 ok i added f to the attributes of ln like that "sudo ln -sf /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id". And the symlink is now there. Lets see if that worked or if the template is now borked.

[@peterenis1363]

@@Servicehans worked perfectly for me, thank you

[@youtube-administrator-handle]

@@Servicehans I am getting the same issue. If I add f to force the link, will it cause any problems later when using the template? have you noticed any issues when using a template for other VMs after adding the f?

[@Servicehans]

@@youtube-administrator-handle sorry for the late reply. The template creates fine, as do the two "child" VMs. However, they both get assigned the same ip and i cant ssh into them. I cant say that using -sf is causing this, could be smth else. Did it work for you?

[@4g242]

This was very helpful, Thank you very much!

[@d36247]

very very helpful, you are amazing ! high support from me

[@dvreal]

How long do you think until the rest of the series comes out? I'm thinking about wiping my proxmox server and starting fresh but have been waiting to learn more about the topics in the remaining videos first.

[@PrapotnikDusan]

Jay, thank you for the nice explanation instructions🤓👏💪

[@mithubopensourcelab482]

Please please consider Open VSwitch lesson, installing pFsense as vm & using inbuilt Proxmox Firewall in your ongoing Proxmox series.

[@Anonymous-qp4zf]

Before converting to template, do in source VM: "sudo cloud-init clean"

[@Chris4380.]

Thanks Jay! I am working with Terraform and using it to deploy proxmox vms based on templates I have created following the steps in this tutorial. Its working great with one exception.. For some reason netplan dhcp4: true is taking precedence over the cloud-init IP. In proxmox you can see the cloud-init drive is active and the IP is set, but the VM is stuck with DHCP without manual intervention. I could use a playbook from Ansible to fix this, but I wanted to check with you to see if there is something I'm missing in the template preparation. Thanks for all that you do! I point all my fellow tech friends and colleagues to your channel.

[@andrewreeves9492]

This corse is excelent really enjoying it, but the bit below got me into such a mess, did the sudo cloud-init clean after biukding a clone and running dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server and made a new clone which seems to work-ish, now the network has dissapeared. I'm going to start the whole thing again, build server from scratch, create template, good practice I guess !!!

[@markGibby]

Great videos! I did have issues with ssh not workting and I dont know think the cloud-init worked... I still had to use the original username and password... I removed and then added openssh to get it work. To be honest i am still new with linux and dont know what cloud-init is or what it does.

[@bthegawd8113]

Have you considered using terraform to launch proxmox vm’s?

[@amitrastogi1405]

Hi Jay, I need to create a template from a Windows VM. Any prerequisites I need to follow before creating the template like you showed here for a linux based VM.

[@sankalpswami3335]

Jay, you are awesome!

[@audriusjanusauskas6182]

Good tutorial, but in my case SSH keys were not auto re-created on clones. OpenBSD secure shell server failed to start, ssh.service failed. Was unable to SSH in clones, had to generate keys at first. My base image for template creation was Ubuntu-20.04.3-live-server-amd64.iso Maybe someone would know what could be the cause for this and have anyone faced issue too? In template image removed keys like Jay did.

[@vash469]

yea same here i cant ssh in to the clone and regenerating doesn't work for me. seems like the service doesn't get started start request repeated to quickly is what the status is showing...any help?

[@LynnEasley]

For anyone else following along, I had the same issue, the solution that worked for me was regenerating the host keys, in /etc/ssh directory run sudo ssh-keygen -A and then start ssh with sudo systemctl start ssh After that ssh worked for me.

[@audriusjanusauskas6182]

@@LynnEasley Yes, I have used those commands also as a workaround. Sudo dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server could be used too (tested on containers). Question is - why keys are being created automatically for some, while for others - not.

[@sdhcapital]

out of curiosity, did anyone also try using a different username in cloud-init settings? I found that my user as well as keys were not being generated, seems like cloud-init never ran.

[@lord-baltimore]

Running "sudo cloud-init clean" as a last step before converting the vm into a template solved the problem for me

[@alantan157]

Can we use the same ethernet port for difference vm with different ip address?

[@AceBoy2099]

If I create a vm (windows) then turn it into a template, can I then go in and change/update the template or would I have to un-template it somehow and break stuff?

[@NabilMakhout]

Hmmm VM that are created from the template isn't getting any IP-address. Any idea why?

[@danieldewindt3919]

very usefull episode this one

[@tocool2010]

if the you are unabel to create a symbolic link its because the notation is different for some reason, it needs to be, "sudo ln -s /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id"

[@quiensabecuando4063]

Hi Jay. Many thanks for these videos. Is this case valid for having a BTC node and a XMR node running in parallel in one machine with Ubuntu server? If so, dobwe need to make 2 partitions? As I see you share same disk space because you clone the first installation, is that correct ? Thank you

[@mczac3733]

When creating a new VM from the template cloudinit does not generate new hostkeys why could that be?

[@trichomelover4209]

I have the same issue

[@juanmanuelmartin-tss5822]

Hi, is thare something like cloud-int for Windows VMs?

[@myproject6753]

I like your channel and recommended it to friends but the ssh error issue after creating the procmox template following your tutorial is quit a problem! I had to start all over again.... would it be possible to update your tutorial?

[@GregBrantUK]

Hi Jay, the links in the description to other episodes are all broken.

[@nandurx]

Any plan on making video for debian? Or is it same steps?

[@iscariotproject]

thank you for this series

[@buzinezz]

I have dhcp set and i keep getting the same IP from the clone/template on all cloned VMs. I have to manually change the IPs every time I create VM from the template...

[@TheKingofparis148]

Hello I made a mistake and deleted my ssh keys for my main pve. is there something I can do to ensure everything is set back up for my main pve or will I be ok once I reboot?

[@Adamn32]

Hi Jay. If I delete the iso from proxmox, the vm will not run. why?

[@zuldjin4342]

Hello Jay! The video is amazing, you can make a video how to create a template for a windows machine in proxmox, please?

[@bjornarsimonsen7592]

Is there anything I need to purge or prepare regarding Windows templates? I mean, they require licenses of course, but other than that?

[@javbaes1427]

Great video - question, why did you remove the attachment to the iso for the virtual disk? (in the CD\DVD). is it because you were going to use cloud init? would you have removed the virtual disk if you were not planning on using cloud init? thank you and keep up the good work.

[@andrewreeves9492]

ok found it, you need to enable dhcp or provide the IP in the cloud-init IP Config, I recon the sudo cloud-init clean changes this. On on 👍

[@MarcosCastro-v5n]

Jay, any reason why after a did a full clone the SSH server failed to start. I was able to get it going by running dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server. Thanks

[@coucoutuveux]

Is there a benefit to not use template and keep a VM "as a template" but just using clone and keeping the VM shutdown for further start and upgrade ?

[@ayodejionipe897]

When I tried to ssh into the servers after I had to do this with both of them before I could ssh in successfully: sudo apt-get purge openssh-server sudo apt-get install openssh-server Is there a reason why or a step I missed?

[@rawhive26]

i followed the video and cloned the template to create 2 VMs.. however the IP assigned to them were same as the template machine. Could let you me know what have I missed here? Thanks

[@hekel1152]

Hi Jay, thanks for the video, but I feel like there might be something going on in the SSH clean up part. By deleting the host keys in /etc/ssh, the SSH service will then fail to start; I've tried recreating your scenario twice in a row, and verified that the ssh service was indeed running to begin with (systemctl status ssh did give me an active running state). After removing the host keys and restarting the server, the SSH service fails to start.

[@Servicehans]

Hey i think i have the same problem. The template creates fine, however i am then unable to ssh into the "child" VMs. How do i fix that ?

[@DaveCampbellKY]

@@Servicehans - i had that issue, and then i read in a post above to do a "sudo cloud-init clean" before templatizing. that actually solved the ssh on start problem. but now each VM made from the template gets the same IP address as the template had. messing with the network settings in cloud-init now (DHCP ?) -but not sure of the outcome yet.

[@tjoleary8738]

Hey Jay, You templated Linux. is the templating process different for Windows? If so, can you release a video that steps through templating Windows? Thx

[@applemodus]

Thanks for the video

[@piotrpytkowski1542]

When the machines are created witch cloud-init, is this possible to change a ip address to static and still will be worked witch cloud-init?

[@michaelcooper5490]

Awesome job Jay, Does the template actually use up resources (i.e. Ram, cpu) if it is just sitting there not running? In other words does it count against the hosts resources. I know storage will because it uses that to store the image/template. As I understand templates are just sitting there correct, waiting to be cloned?

[@peteallennh]

Great content! I’m surprised there isn’t a way to automate the hostname setting.

[@SpaccaIT]

Hi all, I've been experimenting with VM templates and created a couple of clones, but I've noticed an issue. After each reboot, the IP changes (from x.x.x.23 to 24 and so on). The odd thing is, from the Proxmox Console, the MAC address stays the same. Can anybody help? Thanks!

[@ImamMaulanaSukarna]

Hi Jay, thank alot for the tutorial. how about if we using centos 7, i got problem after creating clone from template i cannot access server using the ssh it say "No supported authentication methods available"

[@Breto151]

I just followed these instructions but I am not able to ssh into the new VM created from the template. If I look in /etc/ssh on the console there are no ssh_host* files in there so it looks like they are not automatically getting re-created. Is there an extra step that needs to be done?

[@MacGyver0]

Is proxmox a decent alternative for vmware vsphere? What about vGPU features, can we pass physical GPU to VM?

[@andrewreeves9492]

hmm ok don't know what's going wrong here but when I create a clone it loses all of it's network information, the interface is there but not configured. I'll be checking out yoiur help pages :-)

[@01uu011]

Hey guys. Quick question. If we have Static IP on VM, and there is no DHCP on the router, whats the best solution to create a template? Is there any way to set the IP before make a new VM from template? We can set IP address in CT vir Proxmox GUI, but not for VM. So everytime when I clone the template to VM, I'm facing IP conflict. Any tip how to handle this? thanks!

[@SauloEduardo1]

Hey Jay, is this serie fully available on Patreon? If the answer is yes, what layer would grant access to the all videos of the series?

[@magicmanj32]

Hi jay, great video as usual, does the process differ win a windows vm template?

[@franek4always]

consider using hostnamectl insted of manual editing hostname

[@bs6667]

Aren't these VMs using the same MAC address? Is the only way to generate a new MAC is removing and re-adding the NIC?

[@GrishTech]

When you clone it, proxmox gives a new mac address on the NIC.

[@bs6667]

@@GrishTech That's weird. When I first cloned it, it copied the MAC address, but now it is generating new MACs. Maybe I was seeing things :o. Appreciate the response!

[@danieldewindt3919]

this is usefull info

[@ggalland1]

@Servicehans For some reason I have replied with a fix twice and both times they have disappeared so will try it this way. After spending half the day building vm's, converting them to templates and cloning. I finally google searched and found the fix. But first I also have to say that when working the the "machine-id" file, I could NOT get the symbolic link to work as stated in the video. I could truncate it in /etc folder, but I had to remove the file located in /var/lib/dbus before the command to create a symbolic link would work. Once I got the fixed so the cloned template would provide new machin-id and new IP address the fix for SSH was to perform the following command from the console of the VM in Proxmox: sudo dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server Once that was done I was able to SSH into the new VM with no trouble. I think something changed in Ubuntu within the last few months that was preventing it from all working like Jay shows in the video. I say this because I had no problems when I first did this back then.

[@Servicehans]

Yes, I also think this has to do with the newer Ubuntu ISO. However, as some others have suggested, you have to run "sudo cloud-init clean" before shutting down the template VM. Cloud-init only runs once and using sudo cloud-init clean resets it, so it runs again. That way i got new machine id, ssh working and new ip.

[@asifuzaz]

The SSH connection refuse ???? please solve the issue.

[@ggalland1]

Not sure if you will see this since it's a pretty old video. Just came across this series and am following along. Issued I had on this segment was after I converted the original VM to a template and did the 2 clones, I could not SSH in to those VM's as I could on the original. Now during the "clean up" process on the original VM concerning the machine-id file in "/var/lib/dbus", I never saw the " -> " for the symbolic link. When I ran the "sudo ln -s" command it said the file was already there. Not exactly sure where I messed up. Both new VM's seem to work fine, just can not SSH into them.

[@Servicehans]

Hi, i had the same problem. I used "sudo ln -sf /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id" to force the link. However, i am having in the same problem in regards to not being able to ssh into the "child" VMs. Did you fix your issue? @Hekel seems to have the same problem.

[@ggalland1]

@@Servicehans @Hekel It had been so long, I couldn't remember if I fixed it or not so went ahead and created another vm and followed the process again. Big twist..........I ran into the same issue with the machine-id, symbolic link as stated in my original reply. However, now after following the video and creating template and doing the clones, both my cloned vm's have the same IP address as the original vm. Also looked at the machin-id in the cloned versions, and they match the machine-id from the original vm. However, since the IP addresses and machine-id's did not change as they are supposed to, I had no problems connecting to them via ssh. So now I have a whole different set of problems to try and figure out, smh! Please let me know if y'all have had success or not.

[@Servicehans]

@@ggalland1 Ok. As someone else in comments suggested, you have to use the command 'sudo cloud-init clean'. Cloud Init only runs once, which it did after the first reboot(after finishing the setup). To reset it, you have to run that command. I tried it and it finally worked, new IPs and SSH keys.

[@DaveCampbellKY]

@@Servicehans, @Hekel, @Gary Galland - i am also getting VMs with the same IP address, and the same /etc/machine-id despite going through the video steps AND the final "sudo cloud-init clean" before making the template originally. am i missing something in the sequence? am i reading a suggestion to do the "sudo cloud-init clean" on the new VMs after cloning from the template? thanks!

[@Sil3nC4]

When I start webserver1 the proxmox console works and show the IP, but when I try to logon via SSH (Putty) it says "network error: connection refused". Did I do something wrong or did something meaningfull change to Proxmox 7.2 / Ubuntu 22.04 LTS? BTW ping to the server works

[@Sil3nC4]

What confuses me is why you log onto the server via SSH everytime when you already have an active session in the console on the Proxmox webinterface. Is this just for demonstration purposes, doublechecking that it is indeed up/running/connected, or is there an actual difference?

[@kamalgeorgesnoun4075]

First thing that comes to mind for a beginner like me is the ability to scroll back which is not possible in the internal console where what you see is all you get once the screen scrolls down.

[@АлексейГрищенко-с1г]

Hello. I have some issue with this totaria: i create Ubuntu from Template with predefined login and password. But everytime i get Login Incorrect. I try to change template and login\password but it doesn't help. Has anyone had this issue?

[@frankbaron1608]

as in "dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server" then "sudo systemctl restart ssh"

[@trichomelover4209]

yea that helped, nice

[@frankbaron1608]

did i miss the bit where you regenerate the ssh public keys as i deleted them. each instance fils to start ssh. it's not hte end of the world as i can get in via vnc but...

[@trichomelover4209]

same issue here, did you find solution?

[@kingcogles]

Hi Jay and anyone that can help. After I cloning from my ubuntu server template I end up with a GUI. I really don't know why ubuntu server doesn't come with a GUI and I didn't installed any prior converting my VM into a template. Any idea?

[@UltimateJiuJitsu]

Hi Jay.. thanks for another great video! What are you using to ssh into your machines? I've tried using a linux terminal & using PuTTY, but I can't connect to the webservers -1 & -2. Is it okay to just use the machine console in Proxmox?

[@LearnLinuxTV]

What was the error you were getting when you tried to use ssh? Another way to troubleshoot it, run this inside the Proxmox console: sudo tail -f /var/log/auth.log And while that's running, try to SSH from your computer. You should see whatever the error is in the Proxmox console. Press CTRL+C in the Proxmox console to break out of the tail command.

[@UltimateJiuJitsu]

@@LearnLinuxTV I was getting 'connection refused' message, so I just entered the nano commands into my node shell. It seemed to work but I still cannot ssh into either of the webservers. I thought that removing the ssh from the template may have caused an issue. I will try what you said above and see how things go. Thank you for your help!

[@MrPaulyoutoobing]

@@UltimateJiuJitsu I have this same error - did anything work For you?

[@UltimateJiuJitsu]

@@MrPaulyoutoobing I used the Proxmox node shell to start with.. a few days later I was able to ssh into the webserver as normal

[@MrPaulyoutoobing]

@@UltimateJiuJitsu I could not even SSH into itself. I just blew it away and started over. I know I did not follow the video exactly though so I think I did it to myself.

[@wesgould1]

Maybe I missed a step. My cloned VMs keep spinning up with the same LAN ip address. They aren't different. I am wondering if my UDM Pro is seeing the MAC address and assigning the ip from 'memory'. Any way to fix this via ProxMox?

[@wesgould1]

I re-made the template from scratch(following the same instructions)and it worked. I'll chalk it up to having missed a step the first time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ That or maybe the machine ID regenerates if you install updates/packages.

[@hnic29]

I created a VM and cloned it, but the cloning process took more than 2 hours. Do you have any idea why this is taking such a long time?

[@bthegawd8113]

What type of hardware are you running? Are you using ssd’s or regular drives? That type of info would be helpful

[@nandurx]

hey rebooting VM is keep changing host name back to what was. I tried twice and same issue both time.

[@nandurx]

Any help? I still couldn't figure out!!

[@AlexDresko]

Do you mean to tell me that cloud-init cannot even set hostname?

[@rcdenis1]

I tried to install cloud-init but it warned of a bug while installing. Thank you Jay!

[@LearnLinuxTV]

What was the verbiage? Might be interesting to look into.

[@rcdenis1]

while attempting to reproduce the error I now realize what happened. I mistakenly tried to install cloud-init on the proxmox server's terminal window instead of the VM terminal window. I had multiple terminal windows open at the same time, clicked on the wrong one and started typing.

[@W4tchUrSix]

​@@LearnLinuxTV I have tried sudo cloud-int clean before shutting down the server. I have tried regenerating both the ssh key with both ssh-keygen -A and sshd -A in the /etc/ssh dir. I made sure to stop and restart the VM and none of this worked for the server to accept the password. Anyone have any idea?

[@W4tchUrSix]

I figured it out. I had to change the cloud-init drive settings for network to DHCP it was set on static by default. I changed both IPv4 and IPv6.

[@guilherme5094]

Thanks jay!

[@str0g]

well isn't the hostname good enough of a 'machine-id'??

[@nickgood3998]

Does this work?

[@Ranblv]

I would rename the template to ubuntu-server 2004 web server template

[@SauloEduardo1]

Does anybody have issues connecting to VM through SSH? I'm getting the message: connect to host XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port 22: Connection refused I'm kind of stuck on this so any help is really appreciated.

[@SauloEduardo1]

In order to solve my problem, I had to run the following command through the Proxmox VM Console: sudo /usr/bin/ssh-keygen -A I've followed the exact same steps as Jay. I don't know why I got a different result. Does anybody has a suggestion about how to include this command in the cloning process of a VM template?

[@williemaddox9919]

@@SauloEduardo1 After running keygen, you'll need to reboot the VM before you can log in remotely. just fyi.

[@williemaddox9919]

Or instead of rebooting, run systemctl restart sshd

[@arrecky]

@@SauloEduardo1 thanks a mill mate for your help

[@justincollins4332]

I got this exact same problem. Followed everything to the "t". And your keygen command worked!

[@nonkelsue]

Jay, two out of the three clones I made are showing a "Status: stopped, Config locked (clone)" message. What did go wrong and how to unlock those?

[@TheJimmyCartel]

PLEASE SHOW WINDOWS SERVER

[@Mzansi74]

Who is here in 2023?

[@curmudgeoniii9762]

Hey guys..... You don't go into to much detail because you do not know to much.... guys!!

[@Linuxenthusiast]

Oh yeah my ssh didn't work . I just saw the comments, thanks

[@ierosgr]

Now, that s something Windows has and Linux doesnt .... sysprep

[@michaelmeffie4468]

linux has virt-sysprep (part of the libguestfs tools)

[@florentflote]

[@tezza5751]

Dude needs to take a couple bumps of coke before recording. Great information but I'm about to go to sleep...