diff --git a/alma_9/kickstart.ks b/alma_9/kickstart.ks
index 8bd4089..5474a35 100644
--- a/alma_9/kickstart.ks
+++ b/alma_9/kickstart.ks
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 #auth --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512 --kickstart
-autopart --type=lvm --fstype=ext4
+autopart --type=lvm --fstype=ext4 --nohome
 bootloader --location=mbr --timeout=1 --append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200"
 cdrom
 clearpart --all --initlabel
@@ -31,17 +31,26 @@ gzip
 make
 policycoreutils-python-utils
 sed
+libicu
 tar
 %end
 
 
 %post --log=/root/ks.log
+yum -y install yum-utils
 yum -y config-manager --enable extras
 yum -y config-manager --enable crb
+yum -y config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
 yum -y install https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-9.noarch.rpm
+yum -y install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin
 yum -y distro-sync
+systemctl enable docker
 date > /etc/creation_date
 mkdir /mnt/user
 echo >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
 echo PermitRootLogin yes >> /etc/ssh/sshd_config
+useradd -m runner
+runuser -u runner -- /bin/sh -c 'mkdir /home/runner/actions-runner; cd /home/runner/actions-runner; pwd; curl -o actions-runner-linux-x64-2.309.0.tar.gz -L https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/download/v2.309.0/actions-runner-linux-x64-2.309.0.tar.gz; tar xvzf ./actions-runner-linux-x64-2.309.0.tar.gz'
+/home/runner/actions-runner/bin/installdependencies.sh
+echo "runner	ALL=(ALL)	NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
 %end
diff --git a/alma_9/vars.json b/alma_9/vars.json
index cf27596..d4c0ac7 100644
--- a/alma_9/vars.json
+++ b/alma_9/vars.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "cpu"          : "host",
-    "disk_size"    : "10000M",
-    "iso_checksum" : "sha256:2a44e3f8a012c132da19b9aae2bf949e20b116f0a2a7ac3eca111972f4ac952f",
-    "iso_url"      : "http://ord.mirror.rackspace.com/almalinux/9.1/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-9.1-x86_64-dvd.iso",
+    "disk_size"    : "100000M",
+    "iso_checksum" : "sha256:00c91b923997c44822595998deb0cebcfaa53e93c2bed8745b04516badff431f",
+    "iso_url"      : "http://ord.mirror.rackspace.com/almalinux/9.2/isos/x86_64/AlmaLinux-9.2-x86_64-dvd.iso",
     "kickstart"    : "alma_9/kickstart.ks"
 }
diff --git a/centos_stream_9/vars.json b/centos_stream_9/vars.json
index 48b32fa..afc4888 100644
--- a/centos_stream_9/vars.json
+++ b/centos_stream_9/vars.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "cpu"          : "host",
     "disk_size"    : "10000M",
-    "iso_checksum" : "sha256:b9fc1d83b04a4ad6322bbd8ef993b4ae72ddeb4b2510a292ddf2d6f8dfe60e27",
-    "iso_url"      : "https://mirror.grid.uchicago.edu/pub/linux/centos-stream/9-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/iso/CentOS-Stream-9-20230321.0-x86_64-dvd1.iso",
+    "iso_checksum" : "sha256:e16bc20fe7bfb6c768e2492842a5ec8b183ade5ee0dc41aaa5692a516e1e9cb7",
+    "iso_url"      : "https://mirror.grid.uchicago.edu/pub/linux/centos-stream/9-stream/BaseOS/x86_64/iso/CentOS-Stream-9-20230912.0-x86_64-dvd1.iso",
     "kickstart"    : "centos_stream_9/kickstart.ks"
 }
diff --git a/vmu-rebuild-one b/vmu-rebuild-one
index 8f2a836..a638fcb 100755
--- a/vmu-rebuild-one
+++ b/vmu-rebuild-one
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ export CHECKPOINT_DISABLE=1
 export PACKER_LOG=
 
 timeout -k "$KILL_TIMEOUT" "$TIMEOUT" \
-    "$PACKER" build --timestamp-ui --force \
+    "$PACKER" build -machine-readable --timestamp-ui --force \
     --var-file "$vars" \
     --var disk_image="$disk_image" \
     --var files_path="$files_path" \
@@ -128,7 +128,9 @@ timeout -k "$KILL_TIMEOUT" "$TIMEOUT" \
     \
     "$DATA_DIR/packer-qemu.json"  || fail "Error creating image -- $PACKER exited with error code $?"
 
-mv -f "$output_dir/$disk_image" "$OUTPUT_FILE"  || { trap - EXIT; fail "Error moving output from $output_dir/$disk_image to $OUTPUT_FILE; leaving it there."; }
+timeout -k "$KILL_TIMEOUT" "$TIMEOUT" \
+    qemu-img convert -c -O qcow2 "$output_dir/$disk_image" "$OUTPUT_FILE" || \
+    { trap - EXIT; fail "Error moving output from $output_dir/$disk_image to $OUTPUT_FILE; leaving it there."; }
 
 
 # vim:et:sw=4:sts=4:ts=8