James Falcon

> Create an instance connected with 2 or more Mellanox CX5 or CX6 SR-IOV virtual functions with the same MAC address. The driver is mlx5_core. Can you provide more information...

> Also, it seems like adding mlx5_core to the tuple [here](https://github.com/canonical/cloud-init/blob/main/cloudinit/net/__init__.py#L974) stops the trace-back, but doesn't stop cloud-init to configure IPs on the base interfaces. Yes, your patch is essentially...

Sorry, removed the incomplete label.

> The team has reached the consensus of backporting the feature with limited or no retries as a quilt patch. Sorry to go back on this, but after more discussion,...

On Noble and above on GCE, setting the hostname also requires `create_hostname_file: true`. Does adding that change work for you?

@rajannpatel , whoops, looks like your header is wrong. `#cloud-init` should be `#cloud-config`. Though we do have a related issue on Plucky, I don't think that this is a problem...

@Kryslynn93 , usually the signers update is included with the first PR. Do you plan to make a contribution to cloud-init? If so, what is it?

Thanks for the report. This would be a good thing for cloud-init to do.

@leavelet , thanks for the contribution! Overall, I think things look good. Your newly added test fails. It looks like you need a mock to ensure `hostnamectl` doesn't get called...

We'll leave this to downstream. The 24.2 label is for Ubuntu downstream patches only