image formats

David Nalley david at gnsa.us
Fri Dec 14 21:14:01 UTC 2012


On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 02:04:40PM -0700, Robyn Bergeron wrote:
>> So I read that as "we are currently making images for ec2 AND currently
>> making images for other cloud systems as well (presumably as part of the
>> release engineering process" .... which is what I meant by "what are the
>> other images types" - are they qcow2? raw? ????  But it sonds like we have
>> none because it sounds like there is not actually a decision made. Yes?
>
>
> Ohhhhh. Sorry.
>
> I think we are decided based on earlier conversations that they will be
> provided as both qcow2 and raw.
>
> (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.

--David


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