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Adaptation for Ubuntu 14.04
## Install a necessary packages
sudo apt-get install kvm cloud-utils genisoimage
## URL to most recent cloud image of 14.04
img_url="http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/server/releases/14.04/release"
img_url="${img_url}/ubuntu-14.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1.img"
## download the image
wget $img_url -O disk.img.dist
## Create a file with some user-data in it
cat > my-user-data <<EOF
#cloud-config
password: passw0rd
chpasswd: { expire: False }
ssh_pwauth: True
EOF
## Convert the compressed qcow file downloaded to a uncompressed qcow2
qemu-img convert -O qcow2 disk.img.dist disk.img.orig
## create the disk with NoCloud data on it.
cloud-localds my-seed.img my-user-data
## Create a delta disk to keep our .orig file pristine
qemu-img create -f qcow2 -b disk.img.orig cloud-ubuntu.img
## Boot a kvm
kvm -net nic -net user -hda cloud-ubuntu.img -hdb my-seed.img -m 512
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