Hi,

With ceph rbd you should use raw image format. As i know qcow2 is not
supported.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 6:21 AM, Bill WONG <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Simon,
>
> i have installed ceph package into the compute node, but it looks qcow2
> format is unable to create.. it show error with : Could not write qcow2
> header: Invalid argument
>
> ---
> qemu-img create -f qcow2 rbd:storage1/CentOS7-3 10G
> Formatting 'rbd:storage1/CentOS7-3', fmt=qcow2 size=10737418240
> encryption=off cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
> qemu-img: rbd:storage1/CentOS7-3: Could not write qcow2 header: Invalid
> argument
> ---
>
> any ideas?
> thank you!
>
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Simon Ironside <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 27/01/16 16:51, Bill WONG wrote:
>>
>> i have ceph cluster and KVM in different machine.... the qemu-kvm
>>> (CentOS7) is dedicated compute node installed with qemu-kvm + libvirtd
>>> only, there should be no /etc/ceph/ceph.conf
>>>
>>
>> Likewise, my compute nodes are separate machines from the OSDs/monitors
>> but the compute nodes still have the ceph package installed and
>> /etc/ceph/ceph.conf present. They just aren't running any ceph daemons.
>>
>> I give the compute nodes their own ceph key with write access to the pool
>> for VM storage and read access to the monitors. I can then use ceph status,
>> rbd create, qemu-img etc directly on the compute nodes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Simon.
>>
>
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