<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">hi, all<div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>As to the horizon UI, zip and tar.gz image files are supported.</div><div><br></div><div>"""</div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Specify an image to upload to the Image Service.</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>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.)</div></div><div><br></div><div>"""</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>My test environment is as follow:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>1. LVM as image backend of vms.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>2. running vms on Xen in PV mode</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>But when I upload a tar gzipped raw image file, nova just dd from it to logical volume, thus, nova error logged </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Boot loader didn't return any data!"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I grepped the nova and glance source code, found nothing about of "gz" or "zip" that related to image.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>This feature is valuable to our use case, for the raw image file is 4GB, but the compressed version is only 400MB.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Did I misunderstand the compressed image support?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>Regards.</div><div>Wang Li</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span></div><!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?-->
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