Install Virtual Edge on KVM with initial password
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Install Virtual Edge on KVM with initial password

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Article ID: 385139

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Products

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud

Issue/Introduction

An example of How to Install Virtual Edge on KVM with the initial password

Environment

VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN Edge KVM

Virtual Machine Manager 4.1.0

Resolution

Describes how to install the Virtual Edge on KVM without activating cloud-init config file.

Step:

1. Download *qcow2.gz  and Use gunzip to extract the qcow2 file to the image location

chenhu@dev:~/Documents$ ls
edge-VC_KVM_GUEST-x86_64-5.0.1.5-1027-R5015-20240711-GA-57806465d5-updatable-ext4.qcow2

2. Initial password.

Default User name: root

Default User's password is RANDOM

If set, the default user's password will be set to this value to allow password based login, written to the console.

root@dev:/home/chenhu/Documents# virt-customize -a edge-VC_KVM_GUEST-x86_64-5.0.1.5-1027-R5015-20240711-GA-57806465d5-updatable-ext4.qcow2 --root-password password:123456

[   0.0] Examining the guest ...

[  23.5] Setting a random seed

virt-customize: warning: random seed could not be set for this type of

guest

[  23.5] Setting passwords

virt-customize: warning: password: using insecure md5 password encryption

for guest of type unknown version 5.0.

If this is incorrect, use --password-crypto option and file a bug.

[  24.4] SELinux relabelling

[  24.4] Setting a random seed

virt-customize: warning: random seed could not be set for this type of

guest

[  24.5] Setting passwords

virt-customize: warning: password: using insecure md5 password encryption

for guest of type unknown version 5.0.

If this is incorrect, use --password-crypto option and file a bug.

[  25.4] SELinux relabelling

[  25.5] Finishing off

root@dev:/home/chenhu/Documents#

 

3. Build a new virtual machine for VCE and boot up

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