# Pastebin tLy2gQb7 $ sudo systemd-nspawn -i ubuntu.img -b No GPT or MBR partition table discovered on /mnt/bigdisk/ubuntu/ubuntu.img Note that the disk image needs to either contain only a single MBR partition of type 0x83 that is marked bootable, or a single GPT partition of type 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4 or follow http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/DiscoverablePartitionsSpec/ to be bootable with systemd-nspawn.