diff --git a/build/debian/kokoro/gcp_ubuntu_docker/aarch64/build.sh b/build/debian/kokoro/gcp_ubuntu_docker/aarch64/build.sh
index 308661b..257b7da 100644
--- a/build/debian/kokoro/gcp_ubuntu_docker/aarch64/build.sh
+++ b/build/debian/kokoro/gcp_ubuntu_docker/aarch64/build.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@
 sudo losetup -D
 grep vmx /proc/cpuinfo || true
 sudo ./build.sh
-tar czvS -f ${KOKORO_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/images.tar.gz image.raw vm_config.json.aarch64 --transform s/vm_config.json.aarch64/vm_config.json/
+# --sparse option isn't supported in apache-commons-compress
+tar czv -f ${KOKORO_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/images.tar.gz image.raw vm_config.json.aarch64 --transform s/vm_config.json.aarch64/vm_config.json/
 
 mkdir -p ${KOKORO_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/logs
 sudo cp -r /var/log/fai/* ${KOKORO_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/logs || true
diff --git a/build/debian/vm_config.json.aarch64 b/build/debian/vm_config.json.aarch64
index 2841e6d..c9a16bf 100644
--- a/build/debian/vm_config.json.aarch64
+++ b/build/debian/vm_config.json.aarch64
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     "name": "debian",
     "disks": [
         {
-            "image": "$DATA_DIR/image.raw",
+            "image": "$PAYLOAD_DIR/image.raw",
             "partitions": [],
             "writable": true
         }