Hi Wang Li, I believe so far there is no compressed RAW image support. Please check https://bugs.launchpad.net/nova/+bug/745985 for detail.
-- unicell On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Wang Li <fox...@gmail.com> wrote: > hi, all > > As to the horizon UI, zip and tar.gz image files are supported. > > """ > Specify an image to upload to the Image Service. > > Currently only images available via an HTTP URL are supported. The image > location must be accessible to the Image Service. Compressed image binaries > are supported (.zip and .tar.gz.) > > """ > > My test environment is as follow: > > 1. LVM as image backend of vms. > 2. running vms on Xen in PV mode > > But when I upload a tar gzipped raw image file, nova just dd from it to > logical volume, thus, nova error logged > > "Boot loader didn't return any data!" > > I grepped the nova and glance source code, found nothing about of "gz" or > "zip" that related to image. > > This feature is valuable to our use case, for the raw image file is 4GB, but > the compressed version is only 400MB. > > Did I misunderstand the compressed image support? > > > Regards. > Wang Li > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
