different delivery formats

[Alan Pevec]

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 01:42:28PM -0600, Dennis Gilmore wrote:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> Wanted to get a discussion started, there has been a few requests
>> lately for our ec2 images to be made available for general consumption.
>> either for use in a different cloud provider to ec2, or for use at home
>> with kvm or private cloud. often the requestors reference
>> http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/10.10/release/ im all for making
>> fedora easier to consume. I made a qcow2 format image for f17 that came
>> in at 610M, i also tarred and xz compressed the f16 ec2 raw disk and
>> that came in at 114M the raw disk images are 10G
>
> Based on the size differential there between qcow2 + xz raw format,
> I'm guessing you didn't turn on QCow2 compression ?  I don't think
> QCow2 would get near xz size, but I think it should hve done better
> than 610 MB.

yes it does, I got 200MB qcow2 compressed image:
200M Feb  6 12:46 Fedora-16-ec2-20111101-x86_64-sda.qcow2

Alan