<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><font size="2">Hi,</font><div><font size="2"> I come across two question about the image provision and distribute in openstack(nova),</font></div><div><font size="2">1.Afaik, in current version, nova-compute use the curl to download image from glance (or other places). Are there any alternative methods to choose (such torrent)?</font></div><div><font size="2">2.In fact, to boot a VM above hypervisor (e.g.,KVM, Xen), there is no need to transfer the whole image-file to local. Will the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(49, 49, 49); font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">mechanism to transfer the image on demand on VM booting process makes sense?</span></font></div><div><font size="2"> </font></div><div><font size="2">Thanks,</font></div><div><font size="2">Pengfei</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Have a nice holiday!</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"><font size="2">Pengfei Zhang<<a href="mailto:akashacn@icloud.com">akashacn@icloud.com</a>><br>Geek, Programmer, Phd Candidate</font><div><font size="2">Changsha, Hunan, CN<br>(t) +86 186 8476 1376</font></div></div></div></body></html>