Paul: I assume you're using XenServer? When I grepped through the code, there appears to be a XenServer plugin for glance for supporting tar balls that could be OVAs, but don't necessarily contain the OVF file (?).
Here's the code: https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/stable/essex/plugins/xenserver/xenapi/etc/xapi.d/plugins/glance#L365 Take care, Lorin -- Lorin Hochstein Lead Architect - Cloud Services Nimbis Services, Inc. www.nimbisservices.com On Jul 5, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Paul Voccio wrote: > Lorin, > > We've been using OVA packages since the beginning. I believe there is a flag > in glance for this. > > > Thanks, > ~pvo > > Paul Voccio > [email protected] > 770-335-2143 (c) > pvo on #openstack > ಠ_ಠ > > On Jul 3, 2012, at 9:07 PM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: > >> >> On Jun 29, 2012, at 9:53 PM, Adam Young wrote: >> >>> On 04/01/2012 11:15 AM, Lorin Hochstein wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Mar 29, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:41:28PM -0400, Lorin Hochstein wrote: >>>>>> All: >>>>>> >>>>>> Given that I have a qcow2 image from somewhere (e.g., downloaded >>>>>> it from a uec-images.ubuntu.com, created one from a raw image using >>>>>> qemu-img) that i want to add to glance: >>>>>> >>>>>> 1. How can I tell whether it's an "ovf" or "bare" container format? >>>>> >>>>> You are mixing up terminology here. Disk image formats are things like >>>>> raw, qcow2, vmdk, etc. >>>>> >>>>> OVF refers to the format of a metadata file provided alongside the >>>>> disk image, which describes various requirements for running the >>>>> image. >>>>> >>>>> The two are not tied together at all, merely complementary to >>>>> each other. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Thanks, that clears things up. I was confused by this language, which >>>> sounded to me like the metadata was embedded in the disk image file: >>>> >>>> http://glance.openstack.org/formats.html >>>> >>>> "The container format refers to whether the virtual machine image is in a >>>> file format that also contains metadata about the actual virtual machine." >>>> >>>> In addition, the docs have examples like this, which clearly aren't >>>> meaningful: >>>> http://glance.openstack.org/glance.html#important-information-about-uploading-images >>> >>> Just to add to the confusion the OVF can contain both the metadata file >>> and the disk image file in a single archived file. >>> >>> "An OVF package consists of several files, placed in one directory. A >>> one-file alternative is the OVA package, which is a TAR file with the OVF >>> directory inside." >>> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Virtualization_Format#Technical_description >> >> >> Does anybody know if OpenStack (nova+glance) currently supports OVA >> packages? >> >> Take care, >> >> Lorin >> -- >> Lorin Hochstein >> Lead Architect - Cloud Services >> Nimbis Services, Inc. >> www.nimbisservices.com >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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