Please check also this bug fixed in Havana: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1155842
If you are running Grizzly you’ll need 2013.1.4. On 22 Feb 2014, at 23:16, Alessandro Pilotti <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Akira, > > Cloudbase-Init supports ConfigDrive v2 metadata provided as either: > > - ISO in cdrom drive (any version of Windows starting with XP / 2003) > - ISO in raw HDD (starting with Windows 8 / Windows 2012) > > As you correctly pointed out, Windows does not directly support mounting raw > disks (unpartitioned), so the latter is achieved by > extracting the content of the HDD in an ISO file and mount it as a loopback > drive. > > Nova defaults to ISO and supports VFAT for legacy reasons only. Quoting from > [1]: > > “For legacy reasons, you can configure the configuration drive to use VFAT > format instead of ISO 9660. It is unlikely that you would require VFAT > format because ISO 9660 is widely supported across operating systems. > However, to use the VFAT format, add the following line to > the /etc/nova/nova.conf file: > > config_drive_format=vfat" > > Due to this consideration, we didn't see any particular reason for supporting > also VFAT, but we can talk about it if you have specific scenarios where it’s > worth. > > > Thanks, > > Alessandro > > > [1] http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/enable_config_drive.html > > > On 22 Feb 2014, at 18:29, Akira Yoshiyama <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Recently, I've tried to use HDD-style config-drive with Windows VM and >> Cloudbase-init, but It didn't work. >> I found 2 things below: >> >> * HDD-style config-drive v2 of Nova uses a VFAT filesystem without >> partition (whole disk). >> * Windows Server 2012 doesn't recognize a filesystem without partition. >> >> HDD-style config-drive is useful because cloud-init can delete all >> data on it for security. >> How can I resolve this problem? Does HDD-style config-drive need to >> change its format? >> >> Thank you, >> Akira Yoshiyama >> >> p.s. Cloudbase-init looks for an ISO image on HDD-style config-drive. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
