Latest Centos 8 Image doesn't work for VM? Can't launch agent

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For breaking in, see here:

LXD VM problems - LXD-agent connect fail & shiftfs for lxd inside vm

Can you run these commands inside the VM please: mount -t 9p config /mnt cd /mnt ./install.sh reboot In order to get in, you either need to attach the config drive and use cloud-init or modify the disk image to have the password set.

And here (Section: Extra steps for official Ubuntu images):

Running virtual machines with LXD 4.0

Introduction LXD 4.0 natively supports virtual machines and thanks to a built-in agent, can have them behave almost like containers. Images Community images (images:) We are producing VM images daily for the following distributions: Arch Linux CentOS (7 and up) Debian (8 and up) Fedora Gentoo OpenSUSE Ubuntu For those that have cloud variants for container images, they have matching cloud variants for VM too. Those images are currently the preferred ones for all of those distributions as…

You need to set the root password via cloud-init and then you can login via lxc console.