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Hi Alessandro,

Thank you for your description. You are right. I'm now using Nova-2013.1.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 and going to upgrade to 2013.1.4 soon.

Best regards,
Akira

On 2014年2月23日 6:38:24 GMT+09:00, Alessandro Pilotti <apilotti at cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote:
>Please check also this bug fixed in Havana:
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1155842
>
>If you are running Grizzly you’ll need 2013.1.4.
>
>
>
>On 22 Feb 2014, at 23:16, Alessandro Pilotti
><apilotti at cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Akira,
>> 
>> Cloudbase-Init supports ConfigDrive v2 metadata provided as either:
>> 
>> - ISO in cdrom drive (any version of Windows starting with XP / 2003)
>> - ISO in raw HDD (starting with Windows 8 / Windows 2012)
>> 
>> As you correctly pointed out, Windows does not directly support
>mounting raw disks (unpartitioned), so the latter is achieved by
>> extracting the content of the HDD in an ISO file and mount it as a
>loopback drive.
>> 
>> Nova defaults to ISO and supports VFAT for legacy reasons only.
>Quoting from [1]:
>> 
>> “For legacy reasons, you can configure the configuration drive to use
>VFAT format instead of ISO 9660. It is unlikely that you would require
>VFAT 
>> format because ISO 9660 is widely supported across operating systems.
>However, to use the VFAT format, add the following line to 
>> the /etc/nova/nova.conf file:
>> 
>> config_drive_format=vfat"
>> 
>> Due to this consideration, we didn't see any particular reason for
>supporting also VFAT, but we can talk about it if you have specific
>scenarios where it’s worth.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Alessandro
>> 
>> 
>> [1]
>http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/enable_config_drive.html
>> 
>> 
>> On 22 Feb 2014, at 18:29, Akira Yoshiyama <akirayoshiyama at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> Recently, I've tried to use HDD-style config-drive with Windows VM
>and
>>> Cloudbase-init, but It didn't work.
>>> I found 2 things below:
>>> 
>>> * HDD-style config-drive v2 of Nova uses a VFAT filesystem without
>>> partition (whole disk).
>>> * Windows Server 2012 doesn't recognize a filesystem without
>partition.
>>> 
>>> HDD-style config-drive is useful because cloud-init can delete all
>>> data on it for security.
>>> How can I resolve this problem? Does HDD-style config-drive need to
>>> change its format?
>>> 
>>> Thank you,
>>> Akira Yoshiyama
>>> 
>>> p.s. Cloudbase-init looks for an ISO image on HDD-style
>config-drive.
>>> 
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