There's currently no parsing of manifest.ovf in an .ova. nova assumes that an 'image.vhd' exists within the .ova archive if disk_format is vhd..
- Chris On Sep 23, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Jay Pipes wrote: > 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 This email may include confidential information. If you received it in error, please delete it. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp