domainname not set

[dkirrane]

I have successfully build a ubuntu-base-22.04.1-LTS VM template with Packer and cloud-init as in the example.

However, when I then use the Terraform example to create a new VM from it the domainname is not getting set.

I have tried update metadata.yml in a number of different settings like below but nothing seems to work:

metadata.yml

instance-id: vm_name
hostname: vm_name.domain
local-hostname: vm_name.domain
local_hostname: vm_name.domain
fqdn: vm_name.domain

On the vm I'd expect to see the domain name being:

• hostname --fqdn
• domainname
• hostnamectl

[tenthirtyam]

Try:

instance-id:
hostname:
prefer_fqdn_over_hostname: true
fqdn:
local-hostname:

[dkirrane]

@tenthirtyam ya just tried that same issue

$ hostname
foo
$ domainname
(none)

Also tried switch from cloud-init to terraform clone > customize option but that doesn't work at all. VM doesn't get an IP, it just seems to hang in the vSphere client remote console.

  clone {
    template_uuid = data.vsphere_virtual_machine.template.id
    timeout       = 30
    customize {
      timeout = 10
      linux_options {
        host_name = var.vm_name
        domain    = var.domain
      }
        network_interface {
          ipv4_address = var.ip_address
          ipv4_netmask = var.ip_netmask
        }
        ipv4_gateway    = var.gateway
        dns_server_list = var.dns_server_list
        dns_suffix_list = var.dns_suffix_list
    }
  }

[tenthirtyam]

I won't have a chance to look into it until mid to late November.