Canonical maintains an official set of Ubuntu-based images.

Images are arranged by Ubuntu release, and by image release date,with current being the most recent.For example, the page that contains the most recently built image forUbuntu 24.04 Noble Numbat is Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) Daily Build.Scroll to the bottom of the page for links to the images that can bedownloaded directly.

If your deployment uses QEMU or KVM, we recommend using the imagesin qcow2 format, with name ending in .img.The most recent version of the 64-bit amd64-arch QCOW2 image forUbuntu 24.04 isnoble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img.

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In an Ubuntu cloud image, the login account is ubuntu.