<div dir="ltr">Great, that seems to be exactly what I need! Thanks Lorin</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Lorin Hochstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lorin@nimbisservices.com" target="_blank">lorin@nimbisservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Jacob:<div><br></div><div>You can configure a raw or qcow2 image to resize on boot so it uses the entire primary root disk. See the "Support resizing" section of the OpenStack Compute Admin guide for more details:</div>
<div><br></div><div><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/image-customizing-what-you-need-to-know.html#support-resizing" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/folsom/openstack-compute/admin/content/image-customizing-what-you-need-to-know.html#support-resizing</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>I believe that if cloud-init is installed, it will resize the root partition for you by default, although I haven't tested this myself. For CentOS images, you can install cloud-init from EPEL. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Lorin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Jacob Godin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacobgodin@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacobgodin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Lorin,<div><br></div><div>It was my understanding that this was the way to have a dynamic root disk. So I can have, say, a 5GB instance and a 100GB instance use the same image, rather than limiting the size root FS and giving the rest as ephemeral storage.</div>
<div><br></div><div>@Abel: Ubuntu images work just fine</div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 6, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Lorin Hochstein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lorin@nimbisservices.com" target="_blank">lorin@nimbisservices.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>Out of curiosity, why did you decide to create AMI/ARI/AKI format images instead of qcow2? Curious because I thought that was a legacy thing that nobody did anymore. </p>
<div>—<br>Sent from <a href="https://bit.ly/SZvoJe" target="_blank">Mailbox</a> for iPhone</div><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Jacob Godin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacobgodin@gmail.com" target="_blank">jacobgodin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I have created a CentOS image using the AMI + AKI + ARI method (same as I used to create my Ubuntu images). I am able to successfully upload and launch the image at first. When trying to launch the third+ instances, they simply get stuck in a bootloop after the 'Booting from ROM...'.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Even if I delete the original two images, I am unable to boot. The only way to get a CentOS image to successfully boot is to re-upload the image.</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas? I'm using Folsom w/ Ceph RBD storage for images, and CephFS for instances.</div>
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