[openstack-dev] [Nova] Raw vs Qcow2 images_type in nova/libvirt

Dmitry Guryanov dguryanov at parallels.com
Mon Jan 19 18:40:54 UTC 2015


Hello,

Do I understand correctly, that both Qcow2 and Raw classes in 
libvirt/imagebackend.py can work with images in qcow2 format, but Raw 
copies the whole base image from cache to the instance's dir and Qcow2 
only creates a delta (and use base image from cache)?

-- 
Dmitry Guryanov




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