How-to guides

These guides provide instructions for performing basic operations related to different types of public Ubuntu cloud images.

Building and running vagrant images:

• Build a Vagrant box with Bartender

• Run a Vagrant box

Launching QCOW images:

• Launch QCOW images using libvirt

• Launch QCOW images using QEMU

Other miscellaneous guides about verifying an image checksum, using a cloud-init datasource and running an OVA:

• Verify an image checksum

• Create and use a local cloud-init datasource

• Run an OVA using VirtualBox