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On Thu, 29 Mar 2012, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 04:41:28PM -0400, Lorin Hochstein wrote:
> > All:
> >
> > Given that I have a qcow2 image from somewhere (e.g., downloaded
> > it from a uec-images.ubuntu.com, created one from a raw image using
> > qemu-img) that i want to add to glance:
> >
> > 1. How can I tell whether it's an "ovf" or "bare" container format?
>
> You are mixing up terminology here. Disk image formats are things like
> raw, qcow2, vmdk, etc.
>
> OVF refers to the format of a metadata file provided alongside the
> disk image, which describes various requirements for running the
> image.
>
> The two are not tied together at all, merely complementary to
> each other.

Well, the implementation in glance is not really aligned with reality.
There was discussion on the list a while ago.
http://www.mail-archive.com/openstack@lists.launchpad.net/msg05803.html
that has more info.