On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlo...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > It would be really cool if there were openstack examples for each > container/image format.
Agreed. This is something we can work on better in the Essex release series indeed. > I don’t currently understand how the container format connects into the > actual image (and the result with nova-compute). > Since it seems like say when u upload an iso, ovf doesn’t make sense (so > would that be the bare type?) > Or if u do the following “disk_format=vhd container_format=ovf type=raw” < > windows.ova why is it needed to specify the disk_format? Isn’t that part of > the ova structure? > > Also, will these varying types of formats work with VM’s used by openstack. > Is there a conversion that occurs when a VM is started to the right format > (for say kvm? or for say xen? since I doubt either takes the ova format > directly...). I'd like to ask Paul Voccio or Josh Kearney to answer the above question, since it's not something I'm too familiar with... Paul, Josh? Thanks, jay > On 9/21/11 12:56 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlo...@yahoo-inc.com> > wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I was wondering how these different types of formats supported by glance @ >> http://glance.openstack.org/formats.html will be workable with >> nova-compute. > > Just an FYI, Glance does not (currently) do any inspection to ensure > that what the user is registering in Glance is in fact the disk or > container format that the user says it is. > >> It seems like most examples I see are using precreated ami/ari/aki images. >> I >> haven’t seen a lot of examples using say an iso, or a ovf container. Has >> anyone been successful with those when creating a vm? > > XenServer supports OVF images, and I believe Rackspace teams have > tested with OVAs. You can see some basic discussion here: > > http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerDevelopment#Instance_Management > > Cheers, > jay > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp