arch-boxes
Arch-boxes provides several different VM images.
The images is built daily and released biweekly (via GitLab CI schedule) and synced to the mirrors.
Images
Vagrant
Vagrant images for the VirtualBox and Libvirt provider are released to Vagrant Cloud.
QCOW2 images
At the time of writing we offer two different QCOW2 images. The images are synced to the mirrors under the images directory, ex: https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/images/.
Basic image
The basic image is meant for local usage and comes preconfigured with the user arch (pw: arch) and sshd running.
Cloud image
The cloud image is meant to be used in "the cloud" and comes with cloud-init preinstalled. For tested cloud providers and instructions please see the ArchWiki's Arch Linux on a VPS page.
Development
Dependencies
You'll need the following dependencies:
- qemu
- libisoburn
How to build this
The official builds are done in our Arch Linux GitLab CI and can be built locally by running:
./build-host.sh
Releases
Every release is signed by our CI with the following key:
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