Allow to boot ISO when creating a VM from template with a disk

[stormi]

When a VM template already has a disk, XO assumes that there's already a system on it and does not offer selecting an ISO in the new VM form.

It would be good to have a way either to flag the template as "has no installed system" or to have an optional way to select an ISO to boot from directly from the New VM view.

[Jarli01]

This sounds like a boot order issue, which already exists. As far as I can see anyways.

[Jarli01]

Simply add your disk to the template (CD presumably) and change the boot order for the template.

[stormi]

I'm talking of the new VM view actually, where you can select an ISO directly if there's no hard disk and you can't if there's one. I've edited the description.

[Jarli01]

But you're using a template that has no disk drive, correct? If so you'd have to update the template to have a disk drive, and set that disk drive as the top boot priority.

[stormi]

I'm using a template that has an empty disk drive, which prevents me from selecting an ISO to boot from in the VM view. This is an enhancement request.

[Jarli01]

Which template, I'm happy to help confirm.

[stormi]

A template that I created. Actually I already confirmed with @olivierlambert :)

[Jarli01]

Fair enough.

[olivierlambert]

This is likely a rather minor fix we could probably do before the end of the year.

[Pizzosaure]

Do we just want the ISO option to appear like this:

or do we want to select one of the 3 current options + an ISO ?

[olivierlambert]

That should be enough: if we decide to use an ISO, we don't want to use a config drive/Cloudinit anyway. So it sounds good to me 👍

[rjt]

I have been out of the loop for too long. The recent impressive changelog proves Vates to be a well oiled machine.

I just happened across this email I am subscribed to and see another issue fixed. Congratulations!

/etc/netplan.yaml has required some patience over the last few years, but learning to like it. (Side note, XML and XSLT doc template type would have made issues clear ahead of time and self-documented, but I digress.)
Within the last year or so, I installed a bare metal machine via a Ubuntu cloud server image on a usb stick iso. I believe a second usb stick had the netplan.yaml(?) file used to configure networking. It will be months, but looking forward to trying “always show iso selector” enhancement out and providing more feedback :)