Screenshot from a VMware remote console, showing a GRUB command line for booting Linux, where Packer is entering a 240-character base64-encoded network-config parameter.

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   Peter Krefting (nafmo@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 00:08:18 JST Peter Krefting

   Yes, that was the obvious solution. Glad I don't have to type all that in myself, but rather that #Hashicorp #Packer does that for me.

   (I have to configure the network to set "dhcp-identifier: mac" in Netplan, *before* the autoinstall file is downloaded; to mimic what happens when I install NetworkManager in the generated VM, otherwise it switched IP addresses after reboot, and Packer fails to log in over SSH).

   Definitely did not waste most of today figuring this out...

   #Ubuntu #cloud-init #Netplan #NetworkManager #FAIL