Geco-cloudbase-init

This is a Proxmox patch that allows us to use Cloudbase-init with windows hosts.

What can you do with this patch? Use Cloudbase-Init with Windows VMs to:

Create a new user with username or enable administrator.
Set a password on the new user or administrator.
Set static ip or dhcp on network adapters.
Set machine hostname.
Insert public ssh keys to "user/.ssh/authorized_keys" file of created/enabled user.
Expand partition volumes automatically when there's a resized disk.

You can do all below on system startup with the data provided by the cloud-init section of the proxmox gui.

There is two files that we need to modify Qemu.pm and Cloudinit.pm.

Qemu.pm to get password as cleartext in meta_data drive when it is a Windows VM.
Cloudinit.pm to generate a metadata json file with variables that are compatible with Cloudbase-Init.

If you want to apply the patch manually you can follow these steps: Manual Patching