Hide the cloud-base init screen during Booting

asked 2014-12-17 17:14:17 +0200

alexj.idig
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Hello,

We are creating Windows images for our cloud. Is there an option to hide the cloud-base init screen during booting a Windows instance for the first time. I've a screenshot for it but I couldn't attach it.

Also, can you please provide the cloudbase-init configuration for enabling Windows automatic license activation on new instances.

Thanks. Alex James.

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Thanks for the fix. It worked fine. Also, is possible to use the default 'administrator' user for cloudbase-init. Thing is, customers get confused with two administrator users and most of the customers do not like to retrieve the 'Admin' password from nova client using get-password command. We tried setting 'administrator' user in cloudbase-init conf but password wasn't working after the instance is created.

alexj.idig ( 2014-12-26 05:09:18 +0200 )edit

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answered 2014-12-17 18:39:46 +0200

alexpilotti
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updated 2014-12-18 14:18:00 +0200

For "cloudbase-init screen" you mean the black command line window that shows up during the first boot?

The short answer is yes, we'll add a feature to hide the console window in the next release (max 2 weeks).

If you prefer, you can also change the following line in the unattend.xml available in teh CLoudbase-init conf folder, after install but BEFORE sysprep:

<Path>"%INSTALLDIR%Python27\Scripts\cloudbase-init.exe" --config-file "%CLOUDBASEINITCONFFOLDER%cloudbase-init-unattend.conf"</Path>

With a script that will hide the window, e.g.:

<Path>PowerShell.exe -windowstyle hidden "%INSTALLDIR%Python27\Scripts\cloudbase-init.exe" --config-file "%CLOUDBASEINITCONFFOLDER%cloudbase-init-unattend.conf"</Path>

Regarding licensing, to activate the current Windows instance you can add the following option in the configuration file: