@@ -16,6 +16,18 @@ If you want to run Arch Linux in the cloud, you can use our cloud-image, which i
The default user is `arch`.
If you are running the cloud-image with QEMU, it can in some cases\* be beneficial to run the [QEMU guest-agent](https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/GuestAgent). This can be done with the following user-data:
```yaml
#cloud-config
packages:
-qemu-guest-agent
runcmd:
-[systemctl,daemon-reload]
-[systemctl,enable,qemu-ga]
-[systemctl,start,qemu-ga]
```
*\*ex: when using [Proxmox](https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Qemu-guest-agent) or [oVirt](https://www.ovirt.org/develop/internal/guest-agent/understanding-guest-agents-and-other-tools.html). Please be aware, that the agent basically gives the host root access to the guest.*
Be advised, however, that our automatic builds are cleaned up after a few days so you can't hard-code a specific image version anywhere.
You can use this snippet to always get the most recent image and check its integrity (you need to install `hq` for this):
