-[Ubuntu24.04 server image (64-bit variant required)](http://releases.ubuntu.com/24.04/)
**Reminder**: Although OSM could work with other base images, the only recommended are the ones above, since these are the images used in our daily tests.
OSM could be installed to a remote OpenStack infrastructure from the OSM standard installer. It is based on Ansible and it takes care of configuring the OpenStack infrastructure before deploying a VM with OSM. The Ansible playbook performs the following steps:
1. Creation of a new VM flavour (4 CPUs, 16 GB RAM, 80 GB disk)
2. Download of Ubuntu 22.04 image and upload it to OpenStack Glance
2. Download of Ubuntu 24.04 image and upload it to OpenStack Glance
3. Generation of a new SSH private and public key pair
4. Setup of a new security group to allow external SSH and HTTP access
5. Deployment of a clean Ubuntu 20.04 VM and installation of OSM to it
5. Deployment of a clean Ubuntu 24.04 VM and installation of OSM to it
**Important note:** The OpenStack user needs Admin rights or similar to perform those operations.