4abhinavjain

# should works on any cloud-init enabled hypervisor (openstack.. )

# start from a normal ubuntu 20.04 install as minimal was not available for ARM64
# Since ARM64 machines has higher RAM, Shrinking is desired but not necessary. Instead we will increase tmpfs to 1700MB

# Getting root (if sudo -i doesn't work then set a root password beforehand using 'sudo passwd root'

sudo -i

# make sure we are on the highest kernel, so we can delete all the others ...

MBing

# DO NOT PUT THE WIFI DONGLE IN THE DEVICE BEFORE MENTIONED EXPLICITLY BELOW

# Brief note, after this the UI will not show the usb dongle, 
# the wifi does work and I get an IP address, so all works,
# but I don't go into detail of making it show on the Raspbian UI.
# (for this purpose I don't care about the UI)

# For the use of this I connected my device to an ethernet connection and through the Router could see the IP which I can SSH into.

## STEP 1: Prepare machine and install packages needed

shamil

How to mount a qcow2 disk image

This is a quick guide to mounting a qcow2 disk images on your host server. This is useful to reset passwords, edit files, or recover something without the virtual machine running.

Step 1 - Enable NBD on the Host

modprobe nbd max_part=8