Download the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS server cloud image (release 20260927) for amd64 and arm64 from the TUNA, NJU and official mirrors, verified with the pinned SHA256 checksums from the release's SHA256SUMS. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Kwxp2XWvKnuEBifnCbhyX5
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vm-images
Shared, locally cached virtual-machine installation media and base images. Downloaded ISO, QCOW2, IMG, VHD, and VHDX files are intentionally excluded from Git.
Download images
Download every supported image:
./download-images.sh
Download or check selected targets:
./download-images.sh debian13
./download-images.sh almalinux10
./download-images.sh fedora44
./download-images.sh ubuntu2604
./download-images.sh virtio-win
The Windows installation ISO is not downloaded because Microsoft's temporary
download URLs expire. Place it manually in install-iso/; the script finds it
automatically by matching Win, 11, x64 and .iso in that order
(*Win*11*x64*.iso, case-insensitive). If several files match, the highest
version-sorted name is used. Check which file was picked with
./download-images.sh --print-path windows11 --iso.
Query image paths
The path interface prints one absolute path without downloading anything:
./download-images.sh --print-path debian13
./download-images.sh --print-path almalinux10
./download-images.sh --print-path fedora44
./download-images.sh --print-path ubuntu2604
./download-images.sh --print-path virtio-win
./download-images.sh --print-path windows11
./download-images.sh --print-path windows11 --iso
The Windows target prints the QCOW2 path by default. Add --iso to print its
manually supplied installation ISO path. The QCOW2 is named after the detected
ISO (for example Win11_25H2_English_x64_v2.iso →
base-qcow2/Win11_25H2_English_x64_v2.qcow2); if no ISO is present, an
existing *Win*11*x64*.qcow2 in base-qcow2/ is used instead.
Download URLs can be overridden with DEBIAN_IMAGE_URL, ALMA_IMAGE_URL,
FEDORA_IMAGE_URL, UBUNTU_IMAGE_URL, and VIRTIO_WIN_ISO_URL. Each may
list several mirrors of the same file, separated by whitespace; the Fedora
image defaults to the TUNA, BFSU and NJU mirrors, and the Ubuntu image to the
TUNA, NJU and official cloud-images.ubuntu.com mirrors.
When aria2 is installed (aria2c), an image is
downloaded from all of its mirrors at once, with a single connection to each
mirror. Without it, curl (or wget) tries the mirrors in order. A partial
download is only resumed with the same downloader and mirror list; otherwise
it starts over. The Fedora and Ubuntu checksums can be overridden with
FEDORA_IMAGE_SHA256 and UBUNTU_IMAGE_SHA256 when using a custom image.