Default username/password for cloud image

[fretagi]

Hi everyone!

I am new to the forums. I’m trying to use “virt-install” to create a rocky9 vm, but after the vm creation, I am not able to login as I dont have the default creds. Does anyone knows it?

[nazunalika]

Welcome to the forums!

It may seem confusing, but there are no “default creds” for the cloud images. You will need to provide cloud-init data to virt-install that sets up your user(s) or by specifying --cloud-init by itself, where it will auto-generate a temporary root password for you.

Example config below which you can use with virt-install via --cloud-init user-data="/path/to/user-data.yaml". It may require you to make some experimentation and light reading of the cloud-init documentation to make it work. For below, the default user would be cloud-user.

#cloud-config
password: somepassword
chpasswd: {expire: False}
ssh_pwauth: True
ssh_authorized_keys:
  - ssh-rsa ...

You can directly specify users too.

#cloud-config
users:
  - name: example
    shell: /bin/bash
    sudo: ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
    ssh_authorized_keys:
      - ssh-rsa ...