[Openstack] KVM qcow2 images?

Yury Tsarev xnull at opensuse.org
Tue Apr 8 17:21:39 UTC 2014


On 8 April 2014 19:13, Erich Weiler <weiler at soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Hi Y'all,
>
> I have what I hope is a very simple question.  Under Openstack with CentOS
> 6.5 using KVM as my hypervisor, when I launch an instance on a compute node,
> what directory does the image get copied into?  I suspect it's
> /var/lib/libvirt/qemu but I'm not sure, I'm not sure what I'm looking for.
> My root filesystem has 10GB on it (on each compute node), and in Horizon it
> shows 10GB image space available on each compute node, so I suspect the
> image directory is somewhere on the root filesystem, hence to 10GB space
> available.  I'd like to mount the image directory as a separate filesystem
> so if it fills up I don't impact the root filesystem on the compute nodes.
>
> Any info greatly appreciated!
>
> cheers,
> erich

Hi Erich,

It's /var/lib/nova

Cheers,

Yury




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