<div dir="ltr">Oh forgot to mention depending on hypervisor qcow2 is *KNOWN* to have current (i.e. in the latest version) security flaws... see the qemu-developers list for detail <a href="https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel">https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel</a><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Aryeh Friedman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aryeh.friedman@gmail.com" target="_blank">aryeh.friedman@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">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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<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>
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<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>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 06, 2014 7:19 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Openstack] Error while booting VM<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Hallo all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can I seek help for the problem described below?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<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>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Can I know how to make the VM boot?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Krishnaprasad<u></u><u></u></p>
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