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Rancher version is 2.7.3, harvester version is 1.1.2. The vm shows as running in harvester, but while Rancher shows an IP address for the node, harvester doesn’t

in our case we had a networking problem and the provisioned VM wasn’t able to communicate with rancher (you might be able to SSH into VM and check the logs, either by downloading the SSH keys from Rancher or by duplicating the VM and adding password authentication in cloud-config)

I believe in our case the issue was that a custom cloud-init script was overriding the default one so the qemu-guest-agent wasn’t being installed. Adding said guest agent install to the cloud init script caused the nodes to reprovision and now everything is green 🙂