RHEL QCOW Image Password
June 26, 2023 —
Gregg Szumowski
Did you know that although you can install RHEL from an
ISO, you can also download a QCOW2 image from
Red Hat. However, when you try to start it up under
virt-manager you’ll see that it boots to a
root prompt and you don’t know what the password is. This
can be fixed by running the following from the host’s terminal:
# virt-customize -a <qcow2-image-file-name> --root-password password:<password>