diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 82ba82d917..538c33fbd5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,4 +10,7 @@ stamps*
 !dracut/*/*.sh
 !packer/scripts/*.sh
 void-live-*/
+distdir-*/
 release/
+packer/cloud-*/
+packer/vagrant-*/
diff --git a/mkimage.sh b/mkimage.sh
index 1d691cc681..9e27bcd59c 100755
--- a/mkimage.sh
+++ b/mkimage.sh
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ usage() {
 	 -b <fstype>    /boot filesystem type (default: vfat)
 	 -B <bsize>     /boot filesystem size (default: 256MiB)
 	 -r <fstype>    / filesystem type (default: ext4)
-	 -s <totalsize> Total image size (default: 2GiB)
+	 -s <totalsize> Total image size (default: 768MiB)
 	 -o <output>    Image filename (default: guessed automatically)
 	 -x <num>       Number of threads to use for image compression (default: dynamic)
 	 -h             Show this help and exit
@@ -128,10 +128,10 @@ case "$PLATFORM" in
         ;;
 esac
 # By default we build all platform images with a 256MiB boot partition
-# formated FAT16, and an approximately 1.88GiB root partition formatted
+# formated FAT16, and an approximately 512MiB root partition formatted
 # ext4.  More exotic combinations are of course possible, but this
 # combination works on all known platforms.
-: "${IMGSIZE:=2G}"
+: "${IMGSIZE:=768M}"
 : "${BOOT_FSTYPE:=vfat}"
 : "${BOOT_FSSIZE:=256MiB}"
 : "${ROOT_FSTYPE:=ext4}"
@@ -245,6 +245,10 @@ fi
 # ensure ssh login is possible for headless setups.
 sed -i "${ROOTFS}/etc/ssh/sshd_config" -e 's|^#\(PermitRootLogin\) .*|\1 yes|g'
 
+# Grow rootfs to fill the media on boot
+run_cmd_target "xbps-install -Syr $ROOTFS cloud-guest-utils"
+sed -i "${ROOTFS}/etc/default/growpart" -e 's/#ENABLE/ENABLE/'
+
 # This section does final configuration on the images.  In the case of
 # SBCs this writes the bootloader to the image or sets up other
 # required binaries to boot.  In the case of images destined for a
diff --git a/packer/hcl2/source-qemu.pkr.hcl b/packer/hcl2/source-qemu.pkr.hcl
index 5d2b5db0e8..f1e870042c 100644
--- a/packer/hcl2/source-qemu.pkr.hcl
+++ b/packer/hcl2/source-qemu.pkr.hcl
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ source "qemu" "x86_64" {
   disk_size = "2000M"
   format = "qcow2"
   http_directory = "http"
-  iso_checksum = "sha256:5507fe41f54719e78db7b0f9c685f85b063616d913b14f815dd481b5ea66e397"
-  iso_url = "https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/live/20221001/void-live-x86_64-20221001-base.iso"
+  iso_url = "https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/live/20240314/void-live-x86_64-20240314-base.iso"
+  iso_checksum = "sha256:c1a3c0aff363057132f8dab80287396df8a8b4d7cd7f7d8d3f0e2c3ee9e5be7d"
   ssh_password = "void"
   ssh_timeout = "20m"
   ssh_username = "void"
diff --git a/packer/hcl2/source-virtualbox-ose.pkr.hcl b/packer/hcl2/source-virtualbox-ose.pkr.hcl
index 58e0cce030..a01a2279e5 100644
--- a/packer/hcl2/source-virtualbox-ose.pkr.hcl
+++ b/packer/hcl2/source-virtualbox-ose.pkr.hcl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 source "virtualbox-iso" "x86_64" {
   guest_os_type = "Linux_64"
-  iso_url = "https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/live/20221001/void-live-x86_64-20221001-base.iso"
-  iso_checksum = "sha256:5507fe41f54719e78db7b0f9c685f85b063616d913b14f815dd481b5ea66e397"
+  iso_url = "https://repo-default.voidlinux.org/live/20240314/void-live-x86_64-20240314-base.iso"
+  iso_checksum = "sha256:c1a3c0aff363057132f8dab80287396df8a8b4d7cd7f7d8d3f0e2c3ee9e5be7d"
   ssh_username = "void"
   ssh_password = "void"
   http_directory = "http"
diff --git a/packer/plugins.pkr.hcl b/packer/plugins.pkr.hcl
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7de2aaa61d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packer/plugins.pkr.hcl
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+packer {
+  required_plugins {
+    qemu = {
+      version = "~> 1"
+      source = "github.com/hashicorp/qemu"
+    }
+    vagrant = {
+      version = "~> 1"
+      source = "github.com/hashicorp/vagrant"
+    }
+    virtualbox = {
+      version = "~> 1"
+      source  = "github.com/hashicorp/virtualbox"
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packer/scripts/cloud.sh b/packer/scripts/cloud.sh
index e942f875cb..328d194c15 100644
--- a/packer/scripts/cloud.sh
+++ b/packer/scripts/cloud.sh
@@ -5,20 +5,10 @@ echo "Defaults:void !requiretty" >> /etc/sudoers.d/99-void
 chmod 0440 /etc/sudoers.d/99-void
 mv /etc/sudoers.d/{,10-}wheel
 
-xbps-fetch -o /usr/bin/growpart https://raw.githubusercontent.com/canonical/cloud-utils/ubuntu/0.31-22-g37d4e32a-0ubuntu1/bin/growpart
-chmod +x /usr/bin/growpart
-
-xbps-install -Sy util-linux coreutils sed shinit
+xbps-install -Sy util-linux coreutils sed shinit cloud-guest-utils
 ln -s /etc/sv/shinit /var/service/
 
-cat <<'EOF' > /etc/runit/core-services/10-resize-root.sh
-#!/bin/sh
-rpart=$(findmnt -r -o SOURCE -v -n /)
-rnum=$(cat /sys/class/block/$(basename $rpart)/partition)
-
-/usr/bin/growpart ${rpart%%$rnum} $rnum
-resize2fs $rpart
-EOF
+sed -i -e 's/#ENABLE/ENABLE/' /etc/default/growpart
 
 passwd -dl void
 passwd -dl root