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Expand Up @@ -312,6 +312,23 @@ sudoers file:
cloudstack ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/cloudstack-setup-agent
Defaults:cloudstack !requiretty

Please note that when adding the KVM host to your Cloudstack Management server,
the setup commands will be run with sudo, even with root account.
You should make sure that you are allowed to run binaries and sudo binaries.

On security hardened machines, make sure that the following line is
commented-out in your sudoers file if it exists:

.. parsed-literal::

#Defaults noexec

You may also want to make sure that sudo works by executing the following as
the user you want to register the KVM host with:

.. parsed-literal::

sudo /usr/in/cloudstack-setup-agent --help

Configure CPU model for KVM guest (Optional)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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