Ah, yes thank you Jeremy. The link to the VHD writeup cleared things up for me. I have other IT adventures to tend to today but will give this a go over the weekend. Thanks! -Tony -- Tony Lombardo Systems Administrator Division of Public Safety Access Control Department Cornell University ________________________________ From: Ian Wienand <iwienand@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2024 6:25 PM To: Tony Lombardo <ajl44@cornell.edu> Cc: openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org <openstack-discuss@lists.openstack.org> Subject: Re: Using diskimage-creator for vhd format On Thu, Sep 05, 2024 at 04:35:39PM +0000, Tony Lombardo wrote:
However, I do get the error message that vhd-util isn't available.
"vhd output format specified but no vhd-util executable found."
I read the commit where this was deprecated in favor of qemu-img
https://opendev.org/openstack/diskimage-builder/commit/a3e9e7f89e1059ae09296...
Unfortunately that was later reverted with b52b560fb05102312361a1ce47d71a5de5c19e94 There is a writeup on the VHD situation at https://docs.openstack.org/diskimage-builder/latest/developer/vhd_creation.h... It's been a while since I dug into it, but the VHD for Xenserver, particularly what we need for images on the RAX clouds we have as CI resources, can only effectively be made with the old patched tools. If you need a VPC format (still given a .vhd extension AFAIK) for ... Azure I guess? ... you might have success outputting a .raw and then using qemu-img to convert manually? But DIB will want to use vhd-utils by default. If you need Xen format, we do maintain a PPA of the tools at https://launchpad.net/~openstack-ci-core/+archive/ubuntu/vhd-util Hope that helps, -i