LXD CentOS 8 (cloud) VM error when accessing bash with lxc exec

[yang (Ye Yang)]

Seems like this problem has been reported before:

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

I had an un-pleasant surprise trying to launch a centos 8 image on my existing lxc machine. It seems in the latest build (20200909_07) the lxd agent fails to start in vm mode making the image unusable for me since I cant exec in. I can use the console but don’t know the starting root password. For various reasons I’d strongly like to use the vm mode and not run it as a container. Using a very vanilla default profile and options the LXD agent fails to start in vm mode. If I try centos7, centos…