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On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> It would be really cool if there were openstack examples for each
> container/image format.

Agreed. This is something we can work on better in the Essex release
series indeed.

> I don’t currently understand how the container format connects into the
> actual image (and the result with nova-compute).
> Since it seems like say when u upload an iso, ovf doesn’t make sense (so
> would that be the bare type?)
> Or if u do the following “disk_format=vhd container_format=ovf type=raw” <
> windows.ova why is it needed to specify the disk_format? Isn’t that part of
> the ova structure?
>
> Also, will these varying types of formats work with VM’s used by openstack.
> Is there a conversion that occurs when a VM is started to the right format
> (for say kvm? or for say xen? since I doubt either takes the ova format
> directly...).

I'd like to ask Paul Voccio or Josh Kearney to answer the above
question, since it's not something I'm too familiar with...

Paul, Josh?

Thanks,
jay

> On 9/21/11 12:56 PM, "Jay Pipes" <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Joshua Harlow <harlowja at yahoo-inc.com>
> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was wondering how these different types of formats supported by glance @
>> http://glance.openstack.org/formats.html will be workable with
>> nova-compute.
>
> Just an FYI, Glance does not (currently) do any inspection to ensure
> that what the user is registering in Glance is in fact the disk or
> container format that the user says it is.
>
>> It seems like most examples I see are using precreated ami/ari/aki images.
>> I
>> haven’t seen a lot of examples using say an iso, or a ovf container. Has
>> anyone been successful with those when creating a vm?
>
> XenServer supports OVF images, and I believe Rackspace teams have
> tested with OVAs. You can see some basic discussion here:
>
> http://wiki.openstack.org/XenServerDevelopment#Instance_Management
>
> Cheers,
> jay
>
>