<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Hi Team,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">I'm trying to understand if it is possible to pass an ISO file as user-data or config-drive while creating an instance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Ex.,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><i>openstack server create --image <my image> --flavor <my flavor> <b>--user-data /path/to/myiso.iso</b> --network <my network> <b>--config-drive true</b> <instance name></i><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Basically we need to mount & get the files in our ISO that is passed to the VM instance for initial configuration. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">When trying the above OpenStack CLI command with ISO as user-data, below error is thrown (where as plain text file works),</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><i>'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0xbb in position 32848: invalid start byte</i><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:#073763">Srini</div></div>