diff --git a/linux-image/README b/linux-image/README
index bae2587..1fd0ac8 100644
--- a/linux-image/README
+++ b/linux-image/README
@@ -1,25 +1,27 @@
 Creating and debugging the node linux image
 ===========================================
 
 Debug using Qemu
 ----------------
 
 * Install qemu: Debian >= 9
 
  apt-get install qemu-system-arm qemu-efi
 
 * Run
 
   DISK_EFI='efi.img'
   DISK_SYS='node.img'
   IMAGE='c4.img'
 
+  cloud-localds cloud.img cloud.txt
+
   wget -O $IMAGE https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/xenial/current/xenial-server-cloudimg-arm64-uefi1.img
 
   dd if=/dev/zero of=$DISK_EFI bs=1M count=64
   dd if=/usr/share/qemu-efi/QEMU_EFI.fd of=$DISK_EFI conv=notrunc
   dd if=/dev/zero of=$DISK_SYS bs=1M count=64
 
-  sudo qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt -nographic -pflash $DISK_EFI -pflash $DISK_SYS -drive if=none,file=$IMAGE,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 -netdev type=tap,id=net0 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0
+  sudo qemu-system-aarch64 -m 1024 -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt -nographic -pflash $DISK_EFI -pflash $DISK_SYS -drive if=none,id=cloud,file=cloud.img -drive if=none,file=$IMAGE,id=hd0 -device virtio-blk-device,drive=hd0 -netdev type=tap,id=net0 -device virtio-net-device,netdev=net0
 
 
diff --git a/linux-image/cloud.txt b/linux-image/cloud.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64e580a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linux-image/cloud.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#cloud-config
+password: scitas
+chpasswd: { expire: False }
+ssh_pwauth: True