On most distributions default grub target is i386-pc, which works.
However, on some default is x86_64-efi, which fails with:
grub-install: error: cannot find EFI directory.
Explicitly specify i386-pc target.
If the script is aborted at an unfortunate point, it leaves the whole system broken.
E.g. we've seen that fdisk cannot update partition table until the next reboot.
If you really need to kill it, use a different signal. But better wait.
vm/gce differs from other VM types in that it accepts image
in a weird, GCE-specific format (namely, image named disk.raw
is put into .tar.gz file). This makes it impossible to write
generic code that creates images for any VM types.
Make vm/gce accept just image like e.g. vm/qemu
and handle own specifics internally.
