[Bug]: salt-cloud in 3007.9 not generating any events when run on a minion (with salt-master installed but not used)

[z900collector]

What happened?

I built a separate minion with salt, salt-minion, salt-cloud & salt-master 3007.9 installed on Rocky Linux 9.6. The minion is part of our MAIN salt-master with all VM's and was built to separate the salt-cloud/ VM deployment functionality away from the main salt-master. There is an extensive implementation of salt-minion events being generated now with an extensive implementation of reactors in place and working.

When creating empty DHCP/EFI VM's for booting highly custom OS images in a HPC environment, no salt / cloud / <VM> / * event messages are being generated (or received on the MAIN salt-master.

I have tested simulating the events from the minion using salt-call

salt-call event.send 'salt/cloud/TEST/created' profile="test-pro" provider="cli" name="sid"
local:
    True

The captured event on the master using:

salt-run state.event tag='salt/cloud/*/*'

salt/cloud/TEST/created {"id": "salt-cloud-dev.our-company.edu.au", "tag": "salt/cloud/TEST/created", "data": {"profile": "test-pro", "provider": "cli", "name": "sid", "__pub_fun": "event.send", "__pub_pid": 212469, "__pub_jid": "20251202231039079379", "__pub_tgt": "salt-call"}, "cmd": "_minion_event", "ts": 1764717039, "_stamp": "2025-12-02T23:10:39.093395"}

VM is created using:

salt-cloud -p minimal testing-vm-100 -l debug
and
salt-cloud -p minimal testing-vm-100

VM is being deleted with:

salt-cloud -d testing-vm-100

Type of salt install

Official rpm

Major version

3007.x

What supported OS are you seeing the problem on? Can select multiple. (If bug appears on an unsupported OS, please open a GitHub Discussion instead)

oraclelinux-9, rockylinux-9

salt --versions-report output

# salt --versions-report
Salt Version:
          Salt: 3007.9

Python Version:
        Python: 3.10.19 (main, Oct 30 2025, 04:53:28) [GCC 11.2.0]

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 2.0.0
      cherrypy: unknown
  cryptography: 42.0.5
      dateutil: 2.8.2
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: Not Installed
     gitpython: Not Installed
        Jinja2: 3.1.6
       libgit2: Not Installed
  looseversion: 1.3.0
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.0.7
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 24.0
     pycparser: 2.21
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.19.1
        pygit2: Not Installed
  python-gnupg: 0.5.2
        PyYAML: 6.0.1
         PyZMQ: 25.1.2
        relenv: 0.21.2
         smmap: Not Installed
       timelib: 0.3.0
       Tornado: 6.5.2
           ZMQ: 4.3.4

Salt Package Information:
  Package Type: onedir

System Versions:
          dist: rocky 9.6 Blue Onyx
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 5.14.0-503.14.1.el9_5.x86_64
        system: Linux
       version: Rocky Linux 9.6 Blue Onyx

[z900collector]

Just an additional note:

profile "minimal.conf"

minimal:
  minion:
    master: salt.ourcompany.edu.au
  provider: 'devtest'
  datacenter: 'Dev_Test_DC'
  cluster: 'Dev_Test'
  datastore: 'Datastore-14T'
  power_on: True
  deploy: True
  guest_id: rhel8_64Guest
  image: rhel8_64Guest
  num_cpus: 3
  memory: '4GB'
  annotation: 'Test VM deployed from Salt-cloud - test 100'
  devices:
    scsi:
      SCSI controller 0:
        type: lsilogic_sas
    disk:
      Hard Disk 1:
        size: 80
        controller: 'SCSI controller 0'
    network:
      Network adapter 1:
        name: 'TRI-INTERNAL'
        mac: '00:FF:00:00:00:01'
        switch_type: distributed
        dvs_switch: 'DSwitch 1'

VM can be OL8.10 / RL8.10 or OL/RL 9.5 MAC is custom per VM to DHCP boot correct image. VMWare provider is for VMWare 7.0.3 Deploy options tested both true and false settings. command waits 1200 seconds before returning correctly.