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Hi Wang Li,

I believe so far there is no compressed RAW image support. Please
check https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/745985 for detail.

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On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Wang Li <foxban at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi, all
>
> As to the horizon UI,   zip and tar.gz image files are supported.
>
> """
> Specify an image to upload to the Image Service.
>
> Currently only images available via an HTTP URL are supported. The image
> location must be accessible to the Image Service. Compressed image binaries
> are supported (.zip and .tar.gz.)
>
> """
>
> My test environment is as follow:
>
> 1. LVM as image backend of vms.
> 2. running vms on Xen in PV mode
>
> But when I upload a tar gzipped raw image file, nova just dd from it to
> logical volume, thus, nova error logged
>
> "Boot loader didn't return any data!"
>
> I grepped the nova and glance source code, found nothing about of "gz" or
> "zip" that related to image.
>
> This feature is valuable to our use case, for the raw image file is 4GB, but
> the compressed version is only 400MB.
>
> Did I misunderstand the compressed image support?
>
>
> Regards.
> Wang Li
>
>
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