Re: [Openstack] Image snapshot creation

2015-05-13 Thread Ross Lillie
16 > > From: Leslie-Alexandre DENIS > > Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 6:24 AM > To: "openstack@lists.openstack.org > " < > openstack@lists.openstack.org > > > Subject: Re: [Openstack] Image snapshot creation > > Hello, > > For the first poi

Re: [Openstack] Image snapshot creation

2015-04-28 Thread Delatte, Craig
ilto:openstack@lists.openstack.org>" mailto:openstack@lists.openstack.org>> Subject: Re: [Openstack] Image snapshot creation Hello, For the first point, yes, you need the free space disk necessary to snapshot on the compute node. The process of snapshotting is in fact a qemu-img creation, yo

Re: [Openstack] Image snapshot creation

2015-04-28 Thread Leslie-Alexandre DENIS
Hello, For the first point, yes, you need the free space disk necessary to snapshot on the compute node. The process of snapshotting is in fact a qemu-img creation, you can easily see the process details on the compute node when you trigger a snapshot. However for the second point I don't re

[Openstack] Image snapshot creation

2015-04-23 Thread Ross Lillie
Hi! I'm just trying to clarify my understanding of the image snapshot creation process. When snapshotting a running instance, the compute node must have sufficient disk space for the image to be created prior to uploading to Glance. Is this correct? Also, by default, during the snapshot creation