[Openstack] What Exactly Flavor Work?

Mahardhika Gilang mahardika.gilang at andalabs.com
Thu Oct 10 03:01:59 UTC 2013


Alright, i'll give it try, thanks for both of you. will update soon.
On 10/9/2013 9:32 PM, Bob Ball wrote:
>
> Yes, just to confirm the XenAPI driver will automatically resize disks 
> where it can without needing an agent / cloud-init installed in the VM.
>
> It does this by mounting the disk in the domain running nova and 
> resizing the filesystem/device.
>
> Bob
>
> *From:*Joe Topjian [mailto:joe.topjian at cybera.ca]
> *Sent:* 09 October 2013 14:52
> *To:* Tom Fifield
> *Cc:* openstack at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Openstack] What Exactly Flavor Work?
>
>     My understanding is that automatic resize will occur if the
>     following are all true:
>     * auto_disk_config=True is set as a property on the image in the
>     Image Registry.
>     * The disk on the image has only one partition.
>     * The file system on the one partition is ext3 or ext4.
>
> I think Xen provides some extra help in this area by doing the resize 
> itself (I *think*). KVM defers the job to the user.
>
> There was a long discussion on the openstack-operators list about 
> building CentOS images:
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/operators/25790
>
> The td;dr version would be this post where I link to some scripts that 
> are able to build a complete CentOS image that resizes as you would 
> expect:
>
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/openstack/operators/28733#28733
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Joe
>
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>
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>
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