[Openstack] Special Zero Size root in Flavor, what exactly does it mean?

Sébastien Han han.sebastien at gmail.com
Sat Oct 27 23:27:10 UTC 2012


Hi,

If you use 0 for the rootfs. It means that your vm uses the virtual
size of the based image. You can check the virtual size with qemu.

# qemu-img info <your-image>

Cheers!

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Jonathan Proulx <jon at jonproulx.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I know that specifying a zero size root volume in a flavor is
> "special" but what exactly does it mean.  I'm writing up some
> documentation on flavors and realized I can't fully explain the
> default m1.tiny ...
>
> Thanks,
> -Jon
>
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