With the Nova diablo release (packaged in Ubuntu Oneiric beta-2) the full disk images available on http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com are in an ideal form for use in nova. These are full disk compressed qcow2 images. After bug 837100 was fixed, the images are uncompressed before usage.
So, the correct way to use Ubuntu oneiric images is to do: $ cloud-publish-image i386 oneiric-server-cloud-i386.img bucket/ If you want to run older releases of Ubuntu and support kernel upgrades the best path for that is to upload a loader kernel as is available at [1] -- [1] http://people.canonical.com/~smoser/lucid-loaders/ ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/833265 Title: no ideal way to boot an ubuntu cloud-image on openstack To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/833265/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
