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Yes but raw data keeps the entire space so if you have a 40gb drive and only use 1gb you are stuck with 40gb. Whereas, qcow2 does not. 

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Remo

On Feb 6, 2014, at 9:50, 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
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> 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.
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> http://docs.openstack.org/image-guide/content/ubuntu-image.html
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> From: Narayanan, Krishnaprasad [mailto:narayana at uni-mainz.de] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 7:19 AM
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> Subject: [Openstack] Error while booting VM
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> Can I seek help for the problem described below?
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> 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”.
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> Can I know how to make the VM boot?
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