Thanks Christopher.
I will admit that the significance of type "zvol" versus "lx-dataset"
didn't leap out at me until I read the IMGAPI documentation in detail.
For the benefit of other list subscribers, here's the relevant section
of that:
https://images.joyent.com/docs/#manifest-type
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Manifest: type
The type of the image file. Must be one of:
TYPE DESCRIPTION
zone-dataset a ZFS dataset used to create a new SmartOS zone
lx-dataset a dataset used to create a Lx-brand zone
zvol a KVM virtual machine image
docker a Docker image
other an image that serves any other specific purpose
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On 19 Aug 2015, at 15:53, Christopher Horrell wrote:
Hi,
The easiest and most reliable way is the filer by type "lx-dataset":
curl -s https://images.joyent.com/images | json -c 'this.type ===
"lx-dataset"' -a uuid name version description
--Christopher Horrell Manager, Solutions Engineering
Joyent Inc.
http://www.joyent.com/
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Paul Sture <[email protected]> wrote:
On 17 Aug 2015, at 1:47, Ian Collins wrote:
Christopher Horrell wrote:
Hi everyone,
We just released the following Container-native (lx-brand) and KVM
images to images.joyent.com <http://images.joyent.com> and the
Joyent
Public Cloud:
lx-brand:
centos-6 20150811 3011c3ce-3fc4-11e5-8e79-0f90655d04bf
KVM
centos-6 20150811 234c4a6e-402e-11e5-a311-8bc6aad0d65f
Has there been a change in naming policy? None of the recent
lx-brand
images have lx- in their names which makes them hard to identify.
The current scheme is confusing. You need to look at the description
to
see which one is which.
Comparing the manifests show that there isn't really an easy/reliable
way to tell the
two apart programatically:
"uuid": "234c4a6e-402e-11e5-a311-8bc6aad0d65f",
"uuid": "3011c3ce-3fc4-11e5-8e79-0f90655d04bf",
"provider": "joyent",
"provider": "community",
"description": "CentOS 6.67 64-bit image with just essential
packages
installed, built to run on KVM virtual machines.",
"description": "Container-native CentOS 6.7 64-bit image. Built to
run
on containers with bare metal speed, while offering all the services
of
a typical unix host",
"urn": "sdc:sdc:centos-6:20150811",
"urn": "smartos:smartos:centos-6:20150811",
"type": "zvol",
"type": "lx-dataset",
"requirements": {
"brand": "lx",
"min_platform": {
"7.0": "20150604T203414Z"
},
--
Paul Sture
--
Paul Sture
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