Re: [Openstack] Compressed image support ?

2012-07-15 Thread Wang Li
hi Finally, I found that the images could be stored in glance using qcow2 format with compression enabled. The images are using less storage space and transparent bandwidth now. Images are converted from qcow2 to raw while instance is launched. So my problem wa

Re: [Openstack] Compressed image support ?

2012-07-09 Thread Gabriel Hurley
hpad.net] On Behalf Of > Christopher B Ferris > Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 7:41 PM > To: openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Compressed image support ? > > John Postlethwait wrote: > >... Also, you need to make sure you are linking DIRECTLY to the image

Re: [Openstack] Compressed image support ?

2012-07-09 Thread unicell
Hi Wang Li, I believe so far there is no compressed RAW image support. Please check https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/745985 for detail. -- unicell On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Wang Li wrote: > hi, all > > As to the horizon UI, zip and tar.gz image files are supported. > > """ > Specify

Re: [Openstack] Compressed image support ?

2012-07-09 Thread Christopher B Ferris
risto4ferris phone: +1 508 234 2986 -openstack-bounces+chrisfer=us.ibm@lists.launchpad.net wrote: - >To: Wang Li >From: John Postlethwait >Sent by: openstack-bounces+chrisfer=us.ibm@lists.launchpad.net >Date: 07/09/2012 03:38PM >Cc: openstack@lists.launchpad.net >

Re: [Openstack] Compressed image support ?

2012-07-09 Thread John Postlethwait
Hi Wang, Horizon simply uses the Python interface to Glance and tells it to create the image. Glance supports creating images from remote locations that are in a compressed format. There are examples in the Glance documentation here: https://github.com/openstack/glance/blob/master/doc/source/gl

[Openstack] Compressed image support ?

2012-07-09 Thread Wang Li
hi, all As to the horizon UI, zip and tar.gz image files are supported. """ Specify an image to upload to the Image Service. Currently only images available via an HTTP URL are supported. The image location must be accessible to the Image Service. Compressed image bin