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</span>The only part of this that seems unusual to me is the reliance on an<br>
external application (dmidecode) which we currently don't ship in the<br>
the cloud images. I freely admit to not being overly 'cloudy' so I'll<br>
happily defer judgment to others in the community.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is used by Ubuntu as well. The reason for this is because there are many cloud vendors/systems that are using serial devices for meta data (CloudSigma included). `dmidecode` is used for probing such that CloudInit can pick the appropriate DataSource.</div></div></div></div>