[ceph-users] Doesn't Support Qcow2 Disk images

2015-03-12 Thread Azad Aliyar
Community please explain the 2nd warning on this page: http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/ Important Ceph doesn’t support QCOW2 for hosting a virtual machine disk. Thus if you want to boot virtual machines in Ceph (ephemeral backend or boot from volume), the Glance image format must

Re: [ceph-users] Doesn't Support Qcow2 Disk images

2015-03-12 Thread Andrija Panic
ceph is RAW format - should be all fine...so VM will be using that RAW format On 12 March 2015 at 09:03, Azad Aliyar azad.ali...@sparksupport.com wrote: Community please explain the 2nd warning on this page: http://ceph.com/docs/master/rbd/rbd-openstack/ Important Ceph doesn’t support QCOW2

Re: [ceph-users] Doesn't Support Qcow2 Disk images

2015-03-12 Thread Wido den Hollander
On 12-03-15 13:00, Lindsay Mathieson wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:49:51 PM Vieresjoki, Juha wrote: But there's really no point, block storage is the only viable option for virtual machines performance-wise. With images you're dealing with multiple filesystem layers on top of the actual

Re: [ceph-users] Doesn't Support Qcow2 Disk images

2015-03-12 Thread Vieresjoki, Juha
But there's really no point, block storage is the only viable option for virtual machines performance-wise. With images you're dealing with multiple filesystem layers on top of the actual block devices, plus Ceph as block storage supports pretty much everything that qcow2 as a format does. On 12

Re: [ceph-users] Doesn't Support Qcow2 Disk images

2015-03-12 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 12:49:51 PM Vieresjoki, Juha wrote: But there's really no point, block storage is the only viable option for virtual machines performance-wise. With images you're dealing with multiple filesystem layers on top of the actual block devices, plus Ceph as block storage supports

Re: [ceph-users] Doesn't Support Qcow2 Disk images

2015-03-12 Thread Thomas Foster
http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ch_converting.html On Mar 12, 2015 6:50 AM, Vieresjoki, Juha j...@void.fi wrote: But there's really no point, block storage is the only viable option for virtual machines performance-wise. With images you're dealing with multiple filesystem layers

Re: [ceph-users] Doesn't Support Qcow2 Disk images

2015-03-12 Thread Lindsay Mathieson
On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 09:27:43 AM Andrija Panic wrote: ceph is RAW format - should be all fine...so VM will be using that RAW format If you use cephfs you can use qcow2. ___ ceph-users mailing list ceph-users@lists.ceph.com