[weitzj]

Love it. Also using UTM with Amazon Linux 2023 x64 on an M1 works, so you can create a local HashiCorp Packer Pipeline using the Packer UTM plugin (similar to the QEMU Packer plugin)

source "utm-cloud" "this" { iso_url = "${path.root}/dev_images/al2023-kvm-2023.6.20250303.0-kernel-6.1-x86_64.xfs.gpt.qcow2" iso_checksum = "sha256:0dc2797fe19847f6c75878dd344ab478ac0657077d9a15f2907bb2df41d8c3de" vm_arch = "x86_64" cpus = 2 memory = 4096 display_nopause = true boot_nopause = true export_nopause = true skip_nat_mapping = true communicator = "ssh" ssh_clear_authorized_keys = true ssh_private_key_file = data.sshkey.this.private_key_path ssh_host = "192.168.64.100" ssh_port = 22 ssh_username = "ec2-user" shutdown_command = "echo 'packer' | sudo -S /sbin/halt -h -p" use_cd = true cd_label = "cidata" cd_content = { "meta-data" = <<EOF local-hostname: vm-hostname EOF "user-data" = <<EOF #cloud-config ssh_sftp: enabled: true password: ec2-user ssh_pwauth: True chpasswd: expire: False users: - default - name: ec2-user lock_passwd: false plain_text_passwd: ec2-user ssh_authorized_keys: - ${data.sshkey.this.public_key} EOF "network-config" = <<EOF #cloud-config version: 2 ethernets: enp0s1: # dhcp4: yes addresses: - 192.168.64.100/24 gateway4: 192.168.64.1 nameservers: addresses: - 10.0.2.2 enp0s2: dhcp4: no state: down EOF } }