A host name is pasted into the providerID hosts/<name>/domains/<vm>, which
parseProviderID splits on "/", so a name containing a slash produced an ID
that never parsed again: Get, Delete and GC all failed permanently and the
VM leaked with the Proxy's finalizer stuck.
The image map key has the same defect and lands in a file name rather than
an ID: base-<key>.<format> in the host's storage pool. Both now have to
match a plain identifier pattern. Machine-type keys are left alone; they
are only ever compared, never embedded.
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In the kind cluster two KVM Proxies with real cloud-configs booted fine
but never left Provisioning: the guest agent was not installed, so the
provider could not learn the IP. cloud-init merges vendor-data under
user-data with its default mergers, which keep the user-data's value
for any key both define and never append lists, so a cloud-config with
its own `packages:` silently dropped the vendor-data's packages and
runcmd. The integration test passed only because its user-data was
empty.
withGuestAgent now appends qemu-guest-agent to `packages` and the
enable command to `runcmd` of the Proxy's own cloud-config (skipping
entries already present) and re-renders it. Vendor-data is no longer
defaulted; `vendorData` is plain extra data. User-data that is not a
cloud-config document (script, #include, MIME) still gets the bootstrap
as vendor-data. A cloud-config that is not a YAML mapping, or whose
packages/runcmd is not a list, fails the Proxy as ErrPermanent.
Validated in-cluster: both Proxies Ready and healthy in two minutes, 204
through squid from the LAN. Docs, sample comment, CHANGELOG and the
plan execution log (Run 7) updated.
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Run 5 on the real host bisected the guest hang: the Debian 13 image
hangs after GRUB under SeaBIOS with or without our seed and with either
CPU model, and boots under OVMF. The image's legacy boot chain is the
problem, not the provider.
images.<key>.firmware is "uefi" (default) or "bios". The domain XML
emits <os firmware="efi"> with secure boot off, so libvirt selects the
OVMF binary and manages the NVRAM file, which the existing nvram undefine
flag removes. Direct-URL images default to UEFI too. OVMF joins the
hypervisor prerequisites; sample, config table, known gaps, decision log
and the execution log record the finding.
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Adds the kvm block to the providers config (SSH access, images map,
machine-type profiles, hosts list) with validation and table tests.
validate() now rejects mismatched type-specific blocks generically via
setBlocks() instead of pairwise checks.
Step 1 of docs/plans/2026-09-04-1404-kvm-provider.md.
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