image formats

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Dec 17 18:48:28 UTC 2012


Matthew Miller (mattdm at fedoraproject.org) said: 
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 04:14:01PM -0500, David Nalley wrote:
> > > (Eucalyptus can't digest qcow2.) And I'm afraid they will have to be
> > > compressed because there's no reasonable way to make them a downloadable
> > > yet useful size.
> > VHD and VMDK might also be useful formats.
> 
> Yeah. As I understand it, CloudStack uses different formats depending on the
> hypervisor used, right?

Is it best to produce one image and scripts for post-processing it into the
appropriate formats, or to simply produce them all?

Bill


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