Going forward, it makes sense to host these raw images as well as there are some use cases for that. For instance, what if you don't want to use vagrant but instead just use the raw images in qemu directly?
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Going forward, it makes sense to host these raw images as well as there are some use cases for that. For instance, what if you don't want to use vagrant but instead just use the raw images in qemu directly?