hricky
January 12, 2026, 9:09am
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Currently, the Fedora/CentOS bootc project does not officially provide VM images or ISO files, although this should change over the next few Fedora release cycles. For now, the recommended approach is described in the following links:
Hey there. I’ve been asked a few times in different places about bootc-image-builder and image-builder and their differences/backstory. I’ve written the story and future of both down in a blogpost and was asked on Matrix to also share that here.
The two things merging is pretty exciting as image-builder is also available in Fedora’s build infrastructure so I hope to work on producing bootc artifacts directly in Koji in the near future as well.
Let me know if you have any questions and do try o…
Hey there. During my Christmas break and since my previous post about the differences between image-builder and bootc-image-builder some people had questions about our progress on building installers out of bootable containers.
It made me realize that not many people are familiar with the direction we’re going and that a new installer type, which bases the installer environment on a container, is available.
I decided to write a small blogpost about this as well: Installer types for bootable co…
The workflows described above work for QEMU/KVM/ISO, but I have not personally tested them on VMware.