[CentOS-virt] AWS AMI questions

2013-07-31 Thread CS
Hi folks, I had a few questions in regards to the CentOS AMI: Are there instance backed versions of the AWS marketplace CentOS builds? It looks like there might have been at one point, but I'm not seeing them now, and since they're marked as being from the marketplace we're having some

[CentOS-virt] recover a imagefile

2013-07-31 Thread mattias
i have a converted img file format i think are raw it are converted from qcow2 are it possible to convert it back to qcow2? i tryed with qemu-img convert -O qcow2 w.img w.qcow2 w.img are 75 gb fdisk w.img -l shows correct size but fdisk -l w.qcow2 shows totaly wrong! 0 mb

Re: [CentOS-virt] AWS AMI questions

2013-07-31 Thread Michael Militzer
Hi CS, those are all good questions and I asked quite similar ones already half a year ago: http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/2013-February/003190.html And apart from me, also other people raised the same issue, e.g. here:

Re: [CentOS-virt] AWS AMI questions

2013-07-31 Thread Karanbir Singh
Hi, On 07/31/2013 04:07 PM, CS wrote: Are there instance backed versions of the AWS marketplace CentOS builds? No, there are a couple of issues with the way we do the AWS Market Place setup that make this inconvenient. But hang in there, I'm working on an alternative! Is it possible to

Re: [CentOS-virt] recover a imagefile

2013-07-31 Thread Jorge Fábregas
On 07/31/2013 03:23 PM, mattias wrote: but fdisk -l w.qcow2 shows totaly wrong! You can't use fdisk on a qcow2 file (as it is not just a true image of a raw disk). I highly recommend this guide [1] in order to understand the different file formats used for disk images. Regarding your first

Re: [CentOS-virt] AWS AMI questions

2013-07-31 Thread CS
Thanks Karanbir! Just one comment about the raindrops project; having it as a closed source project that's separate from the official CentOS project, and has no recognizable organization behind, makes it hard to use in any sizable company. Inevitably there would be questions about security and