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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
https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Bhattacharjee, Arindam (Arindam) <
> arindam.bhattacharjee at alcatel-lucent.com> wrote:
>
>>  Probably you need to create qcow2 image out of iso image and then use
>> that qcow2 to create VMs from Openstack.
>>
>> Follow the instructions similar to this:
>>
>> http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ubuntu-image.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Narayanan, Krishnaprasad [mailto:narayana at uni-mainz.de]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, February 06, 2014 7:19 AM
>> *To:* openstack at lists.openstack.org
>> *Subject:* [Openstack] Error while booting VM
>>
>>
>>
>> Hallo all,
>>
>>
>>
>> Can I seek help for the problem described below?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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".
>>
>>
>>
>> Can I know how to make the VM boot?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Krishnaprasad
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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