0000069: AWS Images for 8.5 have 'vmimport'-prefixed sysconfig files

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000069	Cloud	General	public	2021-11-24 19:20	2023-02-17 03:51

Reporter	Neil Hanlon	Assigned To	Neil Hanlon
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	always
Status	closed	Resolution	won't fix

Summary	0000069: AWS Images for 8.5 have 'vmimport'-prefixed sysconfig files
Description	from: https://www.reddit.com/r/RockyLinux/comments/r1bth4/what_are_these_vmimport_files/ >I have a Rocky Linux 8.5 server on an EC2 instance in AWS. I have files in sysconfig with "vmimport" in their names: ``` # find /etc/sysconfig -iname 'vmimport' -print /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/vmimport.ifcfg-ens3-1 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/vmimport.ifcfg-ens3 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/vmimport.ifcfg-eth0 /etc/sysconfig/vmimport.network ``` > What are these files for? What effect do they have on my running system? Do they get rolled into the other ifcfg files? What do they do?
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Neil Hanlon 2021-11-24 19:21 administrator ~0000067	These files are created when being imported into AWS by their vmimport process. Trying to find some exact details, but these shouldn't affect anything and can be safely deleted. From a quick search, it appears that the vmimport process renames them on import, presumably to prevent networking issues on boot in case something special was configured. In our case, we specifically craft the eth0 and network configs in our kickstart for EC2, which is in line with upstream, so I'll need to do a bit of poking around to see where this is exactly coming from. Thank you for the tip. I've opened a bug report for this issue.

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2023-02-17 03:51	Neil Hanlon	Status	assigned => closed
2023-02-17 03:51	Neil Hanlon	Resolution	open => won't fix