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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Making a new Google Compute Engine image
+#   * Create a raw disk 4GiB image dd if=/dev/zero of=disk.raw bs=1M count=4096
+#   * Boot VM (qemu-system-x86_64 -cdrom (haiku-release.iso) -hda disk.raw -boot d --enable-kvm -m 4G
+#     * Partition new disk
+#       * 32 MiB EFI System Data. FAT32 named "ESP"
+#       * Rest of disk, Haiku, BFS, named "Haiku"
+#     * Install Haiku to it new disk
+#     * Allow installer to Reboot, *boot again from CD*
+#     * Setup EFI bootloader
+#       * mount "haiku esp", mount "ESP"
+#       * Copy all contents of "haiku esp" to "ESP"
+#       * unmount "haiku esp", unmount "ESP"
+#     * Mount new Haiku install.  (should mount to /Haiku1)
+#     * Run this script (sysprep-gce.sh /Haiku1)
+#     * Manually copy over latest r1beta4 haiku, haiku_devel, haiku_data_translations, haiku_loader
+#       * Needed on r1b4 due to / permissions fix needed by sshd
+#     * Shutdown VM.  DO NOT BOOT FROM NEW DISK!
+#       * Booting from new disk will cause SSH host keys to generate! (#18186)
+#   * Compress tar cvzf haiku-r1beta4-v20221222.tar.gz disk.raw
+#   * Upload to google cloud storage bucket for haiku.inc (ex: haiku-images/r1beta4/xxx)
+#   * Import image
+#     * compute engine -> images
+#     * create image
+#     * source: Cloud storage file -> haiku-images/r1beta4/xxx
+#     * name: haiku-r1beta4-x64-v20221222
+#     * family: haiku-r1beta4-x64
+#     * description: Haiku R1/Beta4 x86_64
+
+if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
+		echo "usage: $0 <HAIKU ROOTFS>"
+		echo "  example: $0 /Haiku1"
+		return 1;
+fi
+
+SMOL_RELEASE="0.1.1-1"
+TARGET_ROOTFS="$1"
+
+echo "Preparing $TARGET_ROOTFS for Google Compute Engine..."
+echo "WARNING: DO NOT DIRECTLY BOOT FROM THIS HAIKU INSTALL!"
+echo ""
+echo "Installing basic authentication stuff..."
+# Installs gce_metadata_ssh tool for sshd. This lets you control the keys
+# of the "user" user from GKE.  ONLY "user" WORKS! We have no PAM for gce's os-login stuff
+wget https://eu.hpkg.haiku-os.org/haikuports/r1beta4/x86_64/current/packages/smolcloudtools-$SMOL_RELEASE-x86_64.hpkg \
+	-O $TARGET_ROOTFS/system/packages/smolcloudtools-$SMOL_RELEASE-x86_64.hpkg
+
+echo "Configuring ssh..."
+# Configure SSHD (reminder, sshd sees "user" as root since it is UID 0)
+echo "# For Google Compute Engine" >> $TARGET_ROOTFS/system/settings/ssh/sshd_config
+echo "AuthorizedKeysCommand /bin/gce_metadata_ssh" >> $TARGET_ROOTFS/system/settings/ssh/sshd_config
+echo "AuthorizedKeysCommandUser user" >> $TARGET_ROOTFS/system/settings/ssh/sshd_config
+echo "PasswordAuthentication no" >> $TARGET_ROOTFS/system/settings/ssh/sshd_config
+echo "PermitRootLogin without-password" >> $TARGET_ROOTFS/system/settings/ssh/sshd_config
+
+unmount $TARGET_ROOTFS
+
+echo "Complete!  Please shutdown VM. DO NOT BOOT FROM NEW OS IMAGE!"