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Arch Linux Machine Images

The Arch Linux project provides virtual machine disk images suitable for use with Forrest. They can be downloaded from any Arch Linux mirror under the /images/ subdirectory:

$ curl --location --compressed -o Arch-Linux-x86_64-cloudimg.qcow2 \
  https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/archlinux/images/latest/Arch-Linux-x86_64-cloudimg.qcow2

The Arch Linux images are distributed in the qcow2 format, but Forrest assumes raw image files. The qemu-img-tool can be used to convert between the two:

$ qemu-img convert -O raw \
  Arch-Linux-x86_64-cloudimg.qcow2 \
  Arch-Linux-x86_64-cloudimg.img

$ rm Arch-Linux-x86_64-cloudimg.qcow2