For a release, the following files should be made available: - cirros-VERSION-source.tar.gz source tarball. - cirros-VERSION-ARCH-uec.tar.gz uec style tarball, compatible with uec-publish-tarball The blank.img is a mkfs'd disk image only, no contents. It will demonstrate initramfs copies itself to root cirros-VERSION-ARCH-vmlinuz cirros-VERSION-ARCH-initrd cirros-VERSION-ARCH-blank.img - cirros-VERSION-ARCH-disk.img full disk image, suitable for upload to openstack - cirros-VERSION-ARCH-rootfs.img.gz compressed partition image. Suitable for uploading to EC2 or other cloud given a loader such as pv-grub or kexec-loader at http://people.canonical.com/~smoser/lucid-loaders/ - filesys-lxc.tar.gz optimized for lxc tarball. This contains no kernel, ramdisk or modules