Not sure if it helps bumping my own email, but here's a launchpad question as well. Still haven't been able to solve this, it's keeping us from transitioning our windows tests from eucalyptus.
https://answers.launchpad.net/nova/+question/212734 --Erik On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Erik Lindblad <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi! > > I'm running a nova cloud (essex) with both linux and windows > instances. I want the windows images to boot with an ephemeral > pre-formatted ntfs drive. > > I've tried setting: > virt_mkfs="windows=mkfs.ntfs --force --fast --label %(fs_label)s > %(target)s" > > in nova.conf and I've also set the os_type metadata on the windows > image, but nova still uses ext4: > 2012-10-29 12:41:24 DEBUG nova.utils > [req-33b476e7-6412-4caa-ba51-839c36ab35b0 > ec731931e03544d89e46468a3a268d9b 526fedd9083647fbbbc167261f10ecfc] > Running cmd (subprocess): mkfs.ext4 -L ephemeral0 -F > /var/lib/nova/instances/_base/ephemeral_0_20_windows from (pid=10597) > execute /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nova/utils.py:219 > > Cheers, > Erik >
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