Hi Alessandro, Thank you for your description. You are right. I'm now using Nova-2013.1.3 on Ubuntu 12.04 and going to upgrade to 2013.1.4 soon.
Best regards, Akira On 2014年2月23日 6:38:24 GMT+09:00, Alessandro Pilotti <apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote: >Please check also this bug fixed in Havana: >https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/1155842 > >If you are running Grizzly you’ll need 2013.1.4. > > > >On 22 Feb 2014, at 23:16, Alessandro Pilotti ><apilo...@cloudbasesolutions.com> wrote: > >> Hi Akira, >> >> Cloudbase-Init supports ConfigDrive v2 metadata provided as either: >> >> - ISO in cdrom drive (any version of Windows starting with XP / 2003) >> - ISO in raw HDD (starting with Windows 8 / Windows 2012) >> >> As you correctly pointed out, Windows does not directly support >mounting raw disks (unpartitioned), so the latter is achieved by >> extracting the content of the HDD in an ISO file and mount it as a >loopback drive. >> >> Nova defaults to ISO and supports VFAT for legacy reasons only. >Quoting from [1]: >> >> “For legacy reasons, you can configure the configuration drive to use >VFAT format instead of ISO 9660. It is unlikely that you would require >VFAT >> format because ISO 9660 is widely supported across operating systems. >However, to use the VFAT format, add the following line to >> the /etc/nova/nova.conf file: >> >> config_drive_format=vfat" >> >> Due to this consideration, we didn't see any particular reason for >supporting also VFAT, but we can talk about it if you have specific >scenarios where it’s worth. >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Alessandro >> >> >> [1] >http://docs.openstack.org/user-guide/content/enable_config_drive.html >> >> >> On 22 Feb 2014, at 18:29, Akira Yoshiyama <akirayoshiy...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Recently, I've tried to use HDD-style config-drive with Windows VM >and >>> Cloudbase-init, but It didn't work. >>> I found 2 things below: >>> >>> * HDD-style config-drive v2 of Nova uses a VFAT filesystem without >>> partition (whole disk). >>> * Windows Server 2012 doesn't recognize a filesystem without >partition. >>> >>> HDD-style config-drive is useful because cloud-init can delete all >>> data on it for security. >>> How can I resolve this problem? Does HDD-style config-drive need to >>> change its format? >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Akira Yoshiyama >>> >>> p.s. Cloudbase-init looks for an ISO image on HDD-style >config-drive. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-dev mailing list >>> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev > > >_______________________________________________ >OpenStack-dev mailing list >OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev -- 吉山あきら <akirayoshiy...@gmail.com> _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
