Hey Pierre-Luc, The content of the .zip is just the .vhd, and they are the same.
$ cd ~/Downloads; mkdir foo; cd foo $ unzip ../systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-hyperv.vhd.zip Archive: ../systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-hyperv.vhd.zip inflating: systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-3-hyperv.vhd $ ls -al systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-3-hyperv.vhd ../systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-hyperv.vhd -rw-r--r--@ 1 lsimons SBP\Domain Users 1082401792 Jul 29 10:34 ../systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-hyperv.vhd -rw-------@ 1 lsimons SBP\Domain Users 1082401792 Jul 23 12:29 systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-3-hyperv.vhd $ md5 systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-3-hyperv.vhd MD5 (systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-3-hyperv.vhd) = 1b1ab6680127eb7d641e4c692f33d8f3 $ md5 ../systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-hyperv.vhd MD5 (../systemvmtemplate-4.4.0-hyperv.vhd) = 1b1ab6680127eb7d641e4c692f33d8f3 Looking at your pastebin • [root@fresh-acs44 secondary]# /usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/storage/secondary/cloud-install-sys-tmplt -m /data/secondary -u http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/systemvm/4.4/systemvm64template-4.4.0-hyperv.vhd.zip -h hyperv -F • --2014-07-28 21:25:03-- http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/systemvm/4.4/systemvm64template-4.4.0-hyperv.vhd.zip • Resolving cloudstack.apt-get.eu... 109.72.87.236, 2a00:f10:101::2c:91ed • Connecting to cloudstack.apt-get.eu|109.72.87.236|:80... connected. • HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK • Length: 283419356 (270M) [application/zip] • Saving to: `/usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/storage/secondary/1d085142-6fed-4158-ae29-60bd67478ce4.vhd' • • 100%[===================================================================================================================>] 283,419,356 1.41M/s in 3m 57s • • 2014-07-28 21:29:01 (1.14 MB/s) - `/usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/storage/secondary/1d085142-6fed-4158-ae29-60bd67478ce4.vhd'saved [283419356/283419356] • • File /usr/share/cloudstack-common/scripts/storage/secondary/1d085142-6fed-4158-ae29-60bd67478ce4.vhd does not appear to be compressed • Moving to /data/secondary/template/tmpl/1/9///1d085142-6fed-4158-ae29-60bd67478ce4.vhd...could take a while • Successfully installed system VM template to /data/secondary/template/tmpl/1/9/ it seems like you assumed cloud-install-sys-tmplt would figure out it was downloading a zip and unzip it, BUT, it simply saved the .zip as if it was a .vhd, and didn’t attempt to unzip. cheers, Leo On Jul 29, 2014, at 3:53 AM, Pierre-Luc Dion <pd...@cloudops.com> wrote: > there is 2 hyper-V systemvm template availables: .vhd, .vhd.zip at > http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/systemvm/4.4/ > > So, I've download both, but it turn out that the template .vhd file don't > have the same size at the end of the process in both cases. Please see the > cut&paste result. > > http://pastebin.com/wDLExzs3 > > Can't test them, I don't have hyperV, but could we have the same issue with > the KVM template? > > > > *Pierre-Luc DION*