[openstack-dev] [nova] newton-rc-potential bug 1616938 - xen volume-backed snapshot fails with glance v2

Matt Riedemann mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Sat Sep 24 15:34:36 UTC 2016


On 9/24/2016 8:02 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> I came across this bug doing triage last night:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/glance/+bug/1616938
>
> We have a regression in newton when taking a volume-backed snapshot with
> the glance v2 API where it defaults the image disk_format to qcow2 which
> xen doesn't support (only supports vhd).
>
> Nikhil left some good notes in the bug report. It looks like the fix is
> to get the image schema from the glance v2 API and check for supported
> disk and container formats to find one we can use. We can try to use
> qcow2 by default like today, but if it's not in the list of supported
> disk_format enums we'll have to pick something different.
>
> We currently don't have anyone working on this bug. I might be able to
> poke on it this weekend since I'm stuck home on pager duty anyway, but
> would appreciate any help.
>

I've got a fix started here: https://review.openstack.org/#/c/375875/

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Thanks,

Matt Riedemann




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