Gentoo now offers qcow2 disk images

[Posted February 26, 2025 by jzb]

The Gentoo Linux project has announced the availability of qcow2 images for amd64 (x86_64) and arm64 (aarch64), and plans to "eventually" offer images for the riscv64 and loongarch64 architectures.

The images, updated weekly, include an EFI boot partition and a fully functional Gentoo installation; either with no network activated but a password-less root login on the console ("no root pw"), or with network activated, all accounts initially locked, but cloud-init running on boot ("cloud-init").