image formats

[Garrett Holmstrom]

On 2012-12-17 10:48, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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?

Unless the various formats are fundamentally different, if we're looking 
for portability then I'd be inclined to teach people how to package a 
common format like a raw filesystem image into something cloud-specific, 
then publish the common format.  If there's enough space/time/demand 
then it could also be worth publishing multiple formats to make things 
more convenient.

--
Garrett Holmstrom