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+For many things, you can quickly iterate without root by doing something like:
+ * setup:
+   * uec_tgz="cirros-0.3.1~pre2-x86_64-uec.tar.gz"
+   * tar -xvzf $uec_tgz
+   * initrd=$(echo *-initrd)
+   * cp $initrd $initrd.dist
+   * frev=$(bzr revno) # set to whatever your last image was
+ * Then changes things
+ * cp $initrd.dist $initrd
+   (cd ../cirros/src && bzr status --versioned --short -r $frev |
+      awk '$2 ~ "^src/" {sub("^src/","",$2); print $2}' | cpio -H newc -o ) |
+      gzip -c >> "$initrd"
+ * kvm -kernel *-vmlinuz -initrd "$initrd" -append "console=ttyS0" -nographic