Luca Bruno

Thanks both for the detailed insights! @berrange we'll look into OEM strings for the future. "fw_cfg" is being used by [ignition](https://github.com/coreos/ignition/blob/master/doc/supported-platforms.md) for passing provisioning configuration since some time. @cpaelzer then...

[Tackling only one bit out of the larger context] > In particular, what we really want is some sort of message from the VM that it has entered the initramfs,...

> And then further discussion turned up https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/GuestAgent - so we could implement the minimum there in Afterburn, and have coreos-assembler time out if the guest doesn't reply to a...

Additional note: on Azure the firstboot check-in also ejects the Virtual CD (paging @darkmuggle for confirmation), so I fear we cannot really check in before Ignition fetching is completed.

I'm not sure where this unit is coming from and who is consuming it, but another option is to make a templated unit and use `%I` as the mountpoint arg...

@theit8514 thanks for the report. The configuration you are trying to apply is for cloud-init, which is known to have such race issues and has been superseded by Ignition. The...

@theit8514 at an high level, you are expecting Ignition to fetch and apply a configuration to change the initramfs (i.e. the environment where Ignition is running), in order to influence...

> option private_245 => 'a8:3f:81:10' This in fact `168.63.129.16`. So, bad that we don't have https://github.com/coreos/afterburn/issues/146 but good that the fallback worked there too. > http://169.254.169.254/metadata/instance/compute/name?api-version=2017-08-01&format=text ~~According to https://github.com/coreos/fedora-coreos-tracker/issues/476#issuecomment-649898246 the...

Which then makes me wonder, where does an AzureStack instance get its hostname? Is that in the DHCP options?

This follows up to @cgwalters's doubt from https://github.com/openshift/machine-config-operator/pull/964#issuecomment-511036266.