<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yes but raw data keeps the entire space so if you have a 40gb drive and only use 1gb you are stuck with 40gb. Whereas, qcow2 does not. <div><br></div><div>Ciao</div><div>Remo</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 6, 2014, at 9:50, Aryeh Friedman <<a href="mailto:aryeh.friedman@gmail.com">aryeh.friedman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">qcow2 is almost certainly the worst choice here because if the hypervisor for some reason becomes unusable then the data is unreadable by some hypervisors... raw is much more portabls<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Bhattacharjee, Arindam (Arindam) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arindam.bhattacharjee@alcatel-lucent.com" target="_blank">arindam.bhattacharjee@alcatel-lucent.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Probably you need to create qcow2 image out of iso image and then use that qcow2 to create VMs from Openstack.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Follow the instructions similar to this:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><a href="http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ubuntu-image.html" target="_blank">http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ubuntu-image.html</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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<div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Narayanan, Krishnaprasad [mailto:<a href="mailto:narayana@uni-mainz.de" target="_blank">narayana@uni-mainz.de</a>]
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<b>Subject:</b> [Openstack] Error while booting VM<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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</div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Hallo all,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">Can I seek help for the problem described below?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have a VM running Ubuntu 12.04 in my OpenStack cloud and when it boots, I get an error message that says “Error: invalid magic number, error: You need to load the kernel first. Press any key to continue”.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Can I know how to make the VM boot?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Krishnaprasad<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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