D-114: voffice1 is LIVE. cloudinit-vm gains nested virt -- it was silently broken for the model
...
APPLIED, operator-approved: 5 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed. The running OPNsense edge was NOT
touched (confirmed by plan BEFORE apply -- no in-place update, so no repeat of the 2026-07-13
guest bounce).
THE MODULE WAS SILENTLY BROKEN FOR D-114'S ENTIRE MODEL. modules/cloudinit-vm's libvirt_domain
had NO `cpu` block. With none, libvirt renders a GENERIC EMULATED CPU exposing no `svm` -- and
LXD *virtual machines* are qemu/KVM guests, so NO service VM could ever have been composed into
voffice1. D-114 would have failed at its first step with a confusing "KVM not available" that
pointed nowhere near OpenTofu. Measured proof of the masking: host is an AMD EPYC 9965; a
default-CPU guest was handed an "Opteron_G3".
Fix: `cpu { mode = "host-passthrough" }` always, plus a new `expose_nested_virt` variable with NO
default -- a real per-VM decision. true = pass `svm` through (required for D-114's containment
VMs); false = disable it, matching modules/opnsense-edge. The operator asked whether the edge's
`svm` disable was a leftover of the failed OPNsense deploy: it is NOT. It was tried as a
triple-fault fix on 2026-07-12, did NOT resolve it (the real cause was the memory unit), and was
retained on hardening grounds. A router has no business seeing nested virt. It stays disabled there.
voffice1 as built (MEASURED): Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 16 vCPU / 32 GiB / 600 GiB, single NIC on
office1-local, reports the real EPYC CPU with svm on all 16 cores and /dev/kvm PRESENT, egress to
1.1.1.1 at 4.6ms THROUGH the edge. Cloud-init deliberately MINIMAL (identity + key + guest agent);
MAAS and LXD go in as separate GATED steps rather than buried in a first-boot script that either
silently works or silently does not. The SSH pubkey is read via file(var...) at plan time -- key
material never enters a command line, the repo, or an agent's context; the tfvars holding the path
stays gitignored. network_config matches the NIC by GLOB, not a guessed kernel name (an inferred
value); it came up enp1s0.
TWO GATES CLEARED:
1. KEA HAS SERVED ITS FIRST REAL DHCP LEASE. Standing open item: the daemon was proven, the
SERVICE never was (office1-local had no client). voffice1 -- the first client ever on that LAN
-- took 10.10.0.100, hwaddr 52:54:00:6a:87:e5 (matches its NIC), hostname voffice1, state
active, read back through the D-113(a2) REST API. DHCP now works end to end.
2. D-114's NESTING PROBE PASSES AT L3. Stated honestly: this proves nested KVM is AVAILABLE. The
DEFINITIVE proof is a guest actually booting inside voffice1 -- that lands with the first
composed LXD VM. Not recording L3 as fully proven until then.
FINDING, logged NOT actioned (DC1 is gated behind Office1 per D-114): modules/node-vm has the SAME
missing-cpu-block defect. DC nodes run nova-compute, which needs working KVM -- without the fix
they will come up unable to run a single instance. MUST be fixed before Stage 3.
opentofu-validate PASS, repo-lint 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
