VMware VeloCloud SD-WAN Edge KVM
Virtual Machine Manager 4.1.0
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