So trying out not sysprep'ing my image that was generated on a KVM instance so it theoretically be reused with a simple convert format. I know there be dragons... ;-)
I can see in the initial boot the image goes into a device detection phase and during that detection phase (UI shows 66%) I can see in the console that init tries to connect to metadata and gets an "unreachable network error" which is fatal. After about 5min (which makes me think an internal timeout in the image) the instance will shift to Ready UI will come up and the instance will be then be pingable. If I manually force a reboot cb-init will restart and do what it should w/o an issue.
Couple thoughts....
- Assuming if I sysprep'd that init would not launch till after the devices are really ready and wouldn't hit the fatal and I would just carry the 3x prep annoyances etc.
- Assuming if I did the image prep (no sysprep) on Hyper-V only than the device detection would be shorter or unnecessary and wouldn't hit the fatal
This just creates a bit of a fudge factor with rally which I don't love. Is there a networkReady test that should occur before attempting the metadata pull that would prevent the fatal?
